In 2022, nearly five out of ten companies that participated in this study had an open source security (OSS) policy in place for open source development. By contrast, 34 percent of companies worldwide did not have a security policy, while another 17 percent was not aware of the existence of such policy.
Do you have an open source security (OSS) policy in place for open source development or usage?
OSS maintainers and security subject matter experts
Supplementary notes
* Sample size for OSS security perspectives was 539 participants.
Sample size for OSS best practices for secure software development was 72 participants.
Sample size for OSS security was 433 participants.
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