What 50 open source projects taught us about security in the AI era
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GitHub's Secure Open Source Fund invested over $500,000 across 50 open source projects in its fourth session, pairing maintainers with GitHub Security Lab experts, security tooling, AI-assisted workflows, and funding to strengthen project security. Projects like OpenClaw, LangChain, FastAPI, and htmx developed incident response plans, audited CI/CD workflows, and explored AI tools like GitHub Copilot for vulnerability triage and threat modeling. The program runs three-week sprints over 12 months, providing $10,000 per project plus Azure credits and ongoing security office hours. A recurring theme was that AI accelerates investigation and response, but maintainers remain accountable for what ships. Applications for Session 5 close August 24.
