Summary The clock is ticking toward the European Union’s Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) deadlines, yet a staggering 66% of organizations remain completely unaware of what is coming. In this episode of What’s in the SOSS? host Sally sits down with Roman Zhukov, co-chair of the OpenSSF Global Cyber Policy Working Group and Security Communities Lead at Red Hat, to demystify this sweeping regulation.…
The EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is no longer a future regulatory discussion; it is an immediate operational reality. With the September 2026 reporting deadline rapidly approaching and full compliance...
Join Megan Knight on the What's in the SOSS podcast as she breaks down the upcoming EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) and shares practical compliance strategies for open source maintainers and organizations.
Summary Join host Yesenia as she sits down with Mila Zhou, Open Source Program Manager at AWS, to explore the fascinating intersection of finance, strategy, and security in the open source ecosystem. Mila shares her unique journey from forensic auditing to spearheading AWS funding initiatives, breaking down how strategic financial backing transforms vulnerable “long tail” projects and empowers…
The July 2026 OpenSSF Newsletter highlights the upcoming Community Day Europe agenda and new compliance resources for the EU Cyber Resilience Act (CRA). It also introduces a dedicated Policy & Regulatory section, technical updates on dependency firewalls and AI artifact signing, and global community outreach efforts.
OpenSSF Community Day Europe 2026 (October 6 in Prague), focuses on open source software security, regulatory compliance like the EU CRA, and AI supply chain risks. The one-day event features technical sessions on tools like VEX, Gemara, and Sigstore, offering direct collaboration with maintainers and security experts.
A dependency firewall is a security checkpoint that evaluates open source packages before they are installed. It can protect developer workstations, build environments, CI/CD pipelines, and AI coding agents by blocking packages that appear malicious, suspicious, or inconsistent with organizational policy.
In Episode #66 of What’s in the SOSS?, CRob welcomes back Michael Winser to celebrate Alpha-Omega surpassing $20 million in security grants. They discuss the economics of package registries and how Alpha-Omega is partnering with frontier AI providers to give maintainers defensive power tools.
