Tidelift
Tidelift partners with open source maintainers to enhance software security, productivity, and quality by providing validated package intelligence and compliance solutions through a subscription service.
Overview of Tidelift
Tidelift partners with open source maintainers and pays them to apply industry-leading secure software development practices. The company helps organizations reduce security risks by eliminating attack entry points through bad packages. Tidelift improves productivity by reducing vulnerability fire drills from insecure or undermaintained packages, thereby enhancing overall application quality with healthy and resilient open source packages.
Tidelift's Open Source Management Solutions
Tidelift offers extensive solutions for open source management and policy compliance. This includes curating catalogs of vetted and approved open source components. The subscription service provides tools, data, and strategies to minimize risks associated with open source software, ensuring that organizations can efficiently manage and secure their software supply chain.
Subscription Services
Tidelift's subscription service includes access to tools, data, and strategies that help organizations reduce security risks associated with open source software. The service features validated intelligence through APIs, web UI, and CLI capabilities. Subscribers receive first-hand attestation data from maintainers aligned with the U.S. government's NIST Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) standards and a standardized attestations report for proving secure software development practices.
Security and Compliance
Tidelift helps organizations comply with government cybersecurity requirements by providing essential data for attesting to the secure development practices of open source components. The company proactively improves the security and resilience of open source software used in applications, helping prepare for incidents like the xz backdoor hack. Their dynamic tracking of attestations ensures that these reports are automatically updated and maintained.
Maintainer Collaboration
Tidelift collaborates with open source maintainers to validate that projects align with industry-standard secure development best practices. The company provides financial incentives for maintainers to follow these practices, thereby contributing to the overall health and security of the open source software ecosystem. This collaboration ensures that organizations can trust the security and reliability of the open source packages they use.