Core Infrastructure Initiative
Fortifying our future.
The stakes have never been higher for open-source software security. With millions of people around the world relying on open source software — and vulnerabilities like Heartbleed putting everyone at risk — it's time to change the way we support, protect, and fortify open software.
Millions of dollars of shared vigilance.
With our Core Infrastructure Initiative, we're taking a collaborative, pre-emptive approach for strengthening cyber security. Many industry giants signed on to harden the security of key open source projects.
Today, a world-class team of security experts helps the Core Infrastructure Initiative identify and fund open source projects that we all rely upon, whether it's conducting an audit to pinpoint potential weaknesses or collaborating on code to harden security practices.
Meet our security experts.
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Alan Cox
Longtime Linux Kernel Developer -
Ben Laurie
Senior Member of Security Team at Google -
Bruce Schneier
Security Technologist and Author -
Dan Kaminsky
Security Researcher -
Dan Meredith
Director of Open Technology Fund, Radio Free Asia -
Eduard Karel de Jong
Security and Privacy Expert -
Eric Sears
Program Officer for Human Rights and International Justice -
Greg Kroah-Hartman
Fellow, Linux Foundation -
Matt Green
Assistant Research Professor at Johns Hopkins University -
Michael Howard
Senior Principal Cybersecurity Architect at Microsoft -
Robert Seacord
Secure Coding Technical Manager, CERT Division of Carnegie Mellon University’s Software Engineering Institute (SEI) -
Ted Ts'o
Staff Engineer at Google -
Tom Ritter
Practice Director at NCC Group's Cryptography Services
Join us.
With your help, we can speed the pace of open-source innovation while dramatically reducing global threats to online security. In just one year, we've already seen a decrease in the number of bugs in funded projects and built a coalition of committed industry partners. Join us today, and protect the future of computing for generations to come.
What type of help does the Core Infrastructure Initiative provide?
Support from the Initiative can include:
How has CII already helped?
In 2014, CII funded and organized the very first face-to-face meeting of the OpenSSL developers. The core developers collaborated, solved problems, and made progress on the many new contributions coming into the project. The number of bugs are going down, while the number of commits are going up.
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