In 2022, security teams and/or Chief Information Security Officers (CISOs) were the ones responsible for defining their company's open source software (OSS) security policy. However, 12 percent of respondents stated that their organization had nobody responsible for OSS security policies.
Who is responsible for defining your open source software (OSS) security policy?
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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