Open Source Security

Josh Bressers

josh@bress.net

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Booking Overview

This is a specialized interview podcast focused on open-source security, featuring practitioners from security organizations, open-source foundations, and project communities who explain their work firsthand. Agencies could credibly pitch open-source security researchers, software supply-chain specialists, maintainers, foundation leaders, and developers responsible for practical security initiatives; booking difficulty is low because the show prioritizes knowledgeable practitioners over highly famous executives.

Metrics

Episodes: 541

Frequency: Weekly

Rating: 4.8/5.0

Estimated listeners: 1k-10k

Gender skew: Male

Location: USA

Contact Information

josh@bress.net

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Host

Josh Bressers - Open-source security professional and podcast host focused on educating developers and users about how open-source security works.

Booking Intelligence

Booking Requirements

low
Typical Credentials:  
Hands-on open-source security practitioners, software maintainers, foundation representatives, researchers, and leaders of projects addressing vulnerabilities, package risk, or maintainer sustainability.
Required Achievements:  
Leading or contributing to open-source security initiatives, Developing tools or programs for software vulnerability and package-risk management, Establishing funding or support programs for open-source maintainers

Recent Guest Discussions

Josh Marpet - Abandoned Open-source Packages And Methods For Assessing Whether A Package May Be Abandoned.

Mo Duffy - Project Lightwell, Vulnerability-report Overload, And Using Technology To Address The Human Challenges Facing Open-source Projects.

Niko Matsakis - Funding Models And Support For Rust Maintainers.

Lori Lorusso - Funding Models And Support For Rust Maintainers.

Recent Topics

Open Source, Cybersecurity, Software Security, Supply Chain, Maintainers

Episodes

Here's the recent few episodes on
Open Source Security
:

Cleanup, Speedup, Levelup open source at e18e

August 10, 2026

Josh chats with James from e18e. This is a project that is working on improving Javascript packages by cleaning up, speeding up, and leveling up the dependencies. The way the e18e project handles this work is very human open source. It's all about building up connections and trust with the package communities, which is no small effort. James fills us in on what they're doing as well as how we can get involved. It's a truly amazing effort The show notes and blog post for this episode can be fo...

VulnCheck's State of Exploitation Report with Patrick Garrity

August 03, 2026

Josh chats with Patrick Garrity about the VulnCheck State of Exploitation 1H-2026 report. Patrick explains the current trends we are seeing around vulnerabilities right now. While the number of CVEs is way up, the number of actually exploited vulnerabilities isn't growing year over year. This tells us there is a lot of FUD and hype. We also ask where are all the vulnerabilities that project Glasswing found. They should be going public by now, but we're not seeing that play out in the data. Th...

Securing critical infrastructure with Josh Corman

July 27, 2026

Open Source Security welcomes Josh Corman to talk about the challenges around securing our critical infrastructure. Specifically the discussion centers around our water supplies. There are a lot of really wild things happening right now with attacks like Volt Typhoon and Salt Typhoon. Josh has an amazing ability to make these sort of discussions easy to understand without spreading FUD. Josh also has suggestions for actions that need to be taken to help deal with these problems. It's not all ...

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