JetBrains Joins the Open Source Security Foundation

JetBrains has joined the Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF) as a general member. OpenSSF is a cross-industry initiative of the Linux Foundation that works to secure the software supply chain on which the industry depends. The foundation announced our membership today, together with other new members, at OpenSSF Community Day Europe in Prague, co-located with Open Source Summit Europe.

OpenSSF is home to projects that many teams already rely on, including Sigstore for signing and verifying software and SLSA for supply chain integrity. Its AI/ML Security Working Group publishes guidance on signing machine learning models and on writing safe instructions for AI code assistants.

Why we are joining

As coding agents take on more development work, code becomes cheaper to produce but more expensive to verify, and much of that verification is security work. Developers need to know where their code and dependencies come from, and AI adds new questions about how to trust the models and assistants that help write it.

JetBrains Air is how we are working on these questions in our own products, helping developers understand and verify what agents produce. OpenSSF is where we can work on the same questions out in the open, with the wider industry.

“Software development is at an inflection point. AI is changing how software is built and creating new security challenges, making it more important than ever that developers can understand, verify, and trust the software they produce. JetBrains has supported professional software development for more than two decades, and we believe staying ahead of these challenges is best done collaboratively and in the open. OpenSSF brings together some of the strongest expertise in the industry, and we are glad to join the community and help shape the future of secure software development.” – Katherine Druckman, Head of Community and Partnership Engagement, JetBrains

We want to stay ahead of the security questions AI raises, and help guide how the industry answers them. OpenSSF is the right place to do both.

Looking ahead

Developers trust JetBrains tools with their code every day. We take that trust seriously, and supporting the community working to make software more secure is part of how we aim to keep earning it. We look forward to working alongside the rest of the OpenSSF community.