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@SecurityCRob thanks a lot for the security baseline SIG update. I'm in the process of creating implementation plan to create the GitHub repo. Will share update as I make more progress. The doodle poll is rolling in, will share meeting time this Friday. |
| - Scorecard is an automated tool that assesses a number of important heuristics ("checks") associated with software security and assigns each check a score of 0-10. | ||
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Inside the OpenSSF, I feel like people generally understand that Scorecard is a framework for maintainers to walk them through improving their secure software development practices - sort of a gamified maturity model, if you will.
Outside the OpenSSF, we've seen a fair amount of confusion as to if the Scorecard scores should be used by consumers of open source software as a way to boil down risk assessment into a single number, the most recent example of this being https://openssf.slack.com/archives/C019M98JSHK/p1720098402786119.
I think the OpenSSF is aligned on that Scorecard is meant for maintainers and not consumers. Have we thought about how we might adjust our messaging to prevent this confusion in the future? I'm specifically thinking of places like https://github.com/ossf/scorecard and https://securityscorecards.dev/, but I'm open to other suggestions!
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Counter point: I've seen enterprises seek to understand scorecard/scores as a way to automate risk when they consume OSS, and create mechanisms to automate OSS ingestion. The Metrics API SIG (under the former Metrics and Metadata WG) was creating an API where enterprises could pull Scorecard and other data into their processes.
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Relevant scorecard issue: ossf/scorecard#4219
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Err... The README starts with:
We created Scorecard to help open source maintainers improve their security best practices and to help open source consumers judge whether their dependencies are safe.
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