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Open Source Security

Josh Bressers

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works.

There's a lot of good work happening that doesn't get attention because there's no marketing department behind it, they don't have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let's focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know what's up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have to listen.

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  • May 4 · 34 min

    How to actually test a disaster plan with David Bernstein

    Josh and David finish up the disaster recovery and emergency planning trilogy. In this one David tells us how to test the plan he told us how to build in the last episode. There are some great ideas in this one about how to test the process not the people. How to construct the plan, and even some tips to go from a plan to some actual real world testing. It's another episode filled with great and practical advice. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-05-testing-the-plan-david-bernstein/

  • April 27 · 34 min

    Open Source Pledge with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz

    Josh has a discussion with Vlad-Stefan Harbuz about the Open Source Pledge as well as his recent FOSDEM talk. The Open Source Pledge is all about trying to build a sustainable universe for open source maintainers. This ties into Vlad's FOSDEM talk which was all about the challenge of just knowing what open source you are using. The importance of trying to make open source sustainable is a really important topic, but it's also a really hard topic. Vlad helps explain all of this as well as some ideas for the solving this in the future. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-04-open-source-pledge-vlad/

  • April 20 · 39 min

    Building a plan for disaster with David Bernstein

    Josh welcomes back David Bernstein to talk about creating a disaster recover plan. It's a very timely topic given all the current events. There are more supply chain attacks and compromises than ever before. There are some great resources for this planning, but as David tells us, it's really not that hard to put some plans together. It's easy to over-plan, David gives some great tips on getting started with our planning for an eventual incident. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-04-disaster-planning-david-bernstein/

  • April 13 · 38 min

    Open Source Malware with Paul McCarty

    Josh talks to Paul McCarty of Open Source Malware about ... open source malware. Paul explains why there aren't many good open source malware datasets. We discuss why the existing data is lacking for many use cases. We of course touch on AI and the malware in skills problems and challenges. It's a fun discussion with a lot of new and interesting problems we all have to deal with. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-04-open-source-malware-paul-mccarty/

  • April 6 · 36 min

    Package management challenges with Andrew Nesbitt

    Josh welcomes back Andrew Nesbitt to discuss some recent blog posts he wrote about the challenges of new ecosystems as well as challenges of no ecosystems like C. There aren't very many people who look at multiple ecosystems in the way Andrew does. He has thoughts on why it's so hard to create a new ecosystem as well as some of the reasons we don't see a C language ecosystem. Andrew has a ton of interesting ideas and insight for us about both existing, new, and nonexistent ecosystems. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-04-ecosystems-andrew/

  • March 30 · 42 min

    Open Source Security at scale with Michael Winser

    Josh talks to Michael Winser about a talk he gave at FOSDEM as well as his work on Alpha Omega at the Linux Foundation. Michael is approaching open source security in a way that nobody has ever tried before. What if we could fund some really big, really hard projects? It's not cheap or easy, but he's getting it done. We spend a lot of the time discussing package registries, which are a huge topic. Michael is doing some amazing work helping package registries which is the first step in a very long journey. The show notes and blog post for this episode can be found at https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/2026-03-michael-winser/

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