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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Ways in which companies can improve the security of OSS development worldwide 2022
The best way in which companies worldwide could improve the security of developing open source software (OSS) in 2022 was to define a set of best practices for secure software development. At the same time, ** percent of respondents considered that the security of OSS development could be improved by providing more training in secure and memory safe programming for the broader OSS community.
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