During her keynote at the Open Source Summit Europe 2019, Erica Brescia, GitHub’s newly appointed COO, shared that the top thousand projects on the platform have contributions from over 75,000 people.
While she addressed the need to protect this ecosystem in the evolving geo-political landscape of the day, in a conversation with us after keynote, Erica says that security is also one of the top priorities for the platform.
To underline her point, Erica refers to the keynote of Yvonne Wassenaar, the CEO of Security is now a board level issue: how to secure the data supply chain
GitHub brings open source, it’s also important to “think about how security flows through all of that. It really is a global and community problem that we need to solve around software development, but also around security.”
No wonder then that security is a major topic of discussion at GitHub. The platform already has a best antivirus software