A group of computer security professionals has launched oCERT (Open Source Computer Emergency Response Team), an effort to be the go-to place for security incident response for open-source projects. Supporters behind it are Google, security consulting firm Inverse Path and the Open Source Lab at Oregon State University.
OCERT wants to offer tools for helping small and also big open-source software companies take care of the security of their software.
"Small open-source projects often don't have any form of security handling but the same code they manage [is] included by bigger projects and distributions. When there's a compromise, there's no proper coordination and that's not acceptable," says Andrea Barisani, oCERT founder and project coordinator to eWeek.
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