Brian Fox

Brian Fox is a software developer, innovator and entrepreneur. He is an active contributor within the open source development community, most prominently as a member of the Apache Software Foundation and former Chair of the Apache Maven project. As the CTO and co-founder of Sonatype, he is focused on building a platform for developers and DevOps professionals to build high-quality, secure applications with open source components.

Malicious Intent: Open Source Developers, Please Protect Your Users

By Brian Fox on February 14, 2018 software bill of materials

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Pay attention to your own digital security as you would if you were protecting millions of others. Malicious code found in npm package conventional-changelog.
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The Hijacking of a Known GitHub ID: go-bindata

By Brian Fox on February 07, 2018 Software Supply Chain

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the creator of go-bindata deleted their @github account and someone else created a new account under the same name
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How Many Hosted Repositories Can Nexus OSS Support

By Brian Fox on January 09, 2018 nexus oss

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How many hosted repositories an Nexus OSS support?
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Strengthening Software Supply Chains for Everyone: Why Grafeas is a Great Idea

By Brian Fox on October 17, 2017 Nexus Lifecycle

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In keeping with our long standing commitment to open innovation — Sonatype is excited to add unique value to the Grafeas community so organizations everywhere.
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Brian Fox: What does Sonatype do? What do I do all day?

By Brian Fox on September 15, 2017 Sonatype

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Many of my friends and most of my family struggle to understand what it is Sonatype does and therefore what I do all day.
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Vor Security brings OSS Index to Sonatype

By Brian Fox on June 29, 2017 vulnerability

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Vor Security acquisition, extended language coverage, ossindex.net
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Struts2 Exploited Again.  Did Anyone Bother to Tell You?

By Brian Fox on March 10, 2017 oss

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This week I woke up to find several emails from Nexus Lifecycle indicating that the products in my portfolio were potentially vulnerable due to their.
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Did You Wake Up to an Alert About the Java Deserialization Vulnerability?

By Brian Fox on November 13, 2015 oss

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This week I woke up to find several emails from Nexus Lifecycle indicating that the products in my portfolio were potentially vulnerable due to their.
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Rubyists Rejoice - Nexus Supports RubyGem Repositories

By Brian Fox on December 01, 2014 nexus pro

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Rubyists Rejoice - Nexus Supports RubyGem Repositories
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