GitLab's mission is to enable everyone to contribute to and co-create the software that powers the world. That software must be secure.
Open source plays a crucial role in addressing security risk through transparency and community efforts. By having source code publicly available, a wider community from various different background can inspect, identify, and fix vulnerabilities in a timely manner.
Other open source practices help increase security, too. Things like:
- Collaborative Verification
- Security Auditing
- Security tool Development
- Contributions to security initiatives
- Vulnerability Reporting and Resolution
- Education and Best Practices
Using examples of these practices from GitLab and other open source projects, let's talk about how we can move open source security forward together.