GoKawiilI’ve always built Sniffnet with a security-first mindset, and today I’m thrilled to announce a major milestone faithfully aligned with that philosophy: Sniffnet recently took part in the GitHub Secure Open Source Fund!
Backed by industry giants like Microsoft, Stripe, 1Password, and Shopify, it’s a dedicated initiative focused on improving the security and sustainability of critical open-source software.
In this blog post, I’ll share how the program made Sniffnet more secure, and walk you through the steps you can follow to do the same.
After all, one of the most important lessons I’m taking away from this experience is that security is a joint effort of the whole community: each project is a tiny piece of a bigger puzzle and no one can be completely safe if the rest of the ecosystem isn’t.
The GitHub Secure Open Source Fund program
The program’s mission is to secure open source software that is widely used and critical to the modern stack.
It consists of an immersive 3-week sprint that provides each onboarded project with $10k in funding, hands-on training, and mentorship to help maintainers understand that security is a baseline requirement, not a nice-to-have.
The sprint is curated by the GitHub Security Lab and delivered by a team of security experts.
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