Akrites | Patch the Commons, Together

Coordinated, confidential vulnerability remediation for the open source software critical infrastructure depends on

Coordinated, confidential vulnerability remediation for the open source software critical infrastructure depends on Read Press Release An open letter from the technology industry, and the launch of Akrites – a coordinated effort to remediate vulnerabilities in the open source software the world runs on. Read Open Letter Origin The name comes from the Akritai — the Byzantine Empire’s frontier guardians, who stood watch where threats arrived first and defenses were thinnest. In modern software, that frontier is upstream: the open source projects everything depends on. Akrites is the…

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