OSV and the Vulnerability Life Cycle

Posted by Oliver Chang and Andrew Pollock, Google Open Source Security Team

It is an interesting time for everyone concerned with open source vulnerabilities. The U.S. Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity requirements for vulnerability disclosure programs and assurances for software used by the US government will go into effect later this year. Finding and fixing security vulnerabilities has never been more important, yet with increasing interest in the area, the vulnerability management space has become fragmented—there are a …

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