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Bipartisan legislation aims to make open source public infrastructure

September 26, 2022Ken Showers, Managing Editor

WASHINGTON, D.C. – New bipartisan legislation introduced on Sept. 22, 2022, seeks to protect critical infrastructure through strengthening the security of open source software (OSS). The Securing Open Source Software Act (SOSSA) was introduced by Senators Rob Portman (R-OH) and Gary Peter (D-MI) alongside members of the Governmental Affairs Committee and Homeland Security as a means of enhancing open source software in light of serious security issues. In particular they note Log4J incident...

Gary Peter, Log4j, open source, Rob Portman, Securing Open Source Software Act (SOSSA), Trey Herr, U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS)