Guests:

  • Himanshu Khurana, Engineering Manager, Google Cloud
  • Rahul Gupta, Product Manager for Assured OSS, Google Cloud

Topics:

  • For the software you’re supporting in Assured Open Source your team discovered 50% of the CVEs reported in them this year. How did that happen?
  • So what is Assured Open Source?
  • Do we really guarantee its security? What does “guarantee” here mean?
  • What’re users actually paying for here?
  • What’s the Google magic here and why are we doing this?
  • Do we really audit all code and fuzz for security issues?
  • What’s a supply chain attack and then we’ll talk about how this is plugging into those gaps?

Resources:

  • Assured Open Source Software page
  • “SBOMs: A Step Towards a More Secure Software Supply Chain” (ep116)
  • “Linking Up The Pieces: Software Supply Chain Security at Google and Beyond” (ep24)
  • SLSA.dev blog
  • Open Source Security Podcast
  • Mandiant M-Trends 2023