Red Hat joins The Linux Foundation and other leading technology organizations to launch Akrites: the largest coordinated effort in history to standardize vulnerability disclosure protocols and streamline upstream threat intelligence, leveraging the collective power of the community to make everyone safer. Chris Wright, Chief Technology Officer and Senior Vice President, Global Engineering, Red Hat explains the importance: “Open source is the foundation of modern software innovation. Defending that foundation requires a coordinated, upstream community response capable of meeting threats at scale. Red Hat’s participation in Akrites focuses on strengthening this upstream ecosystem. By collaborating openly to identify and patch vulnerabilities at the source, we help build a more resilient software supply chain for the entire industry.” We all depend on open source and we defend it together.
The age of AI requires a new solution to cybersecurity challenges. Today, the Linux Foundation and industry leaders launched Akrites, a coordinated effort to defend critical open source software against AI-enabled cyber threats. Founding members of this effort include Amazon Web Services (AWS), Anthropic, Chainguard, Cisco, Citi, Endor Labs, Ericsson, Google, IBM, JPMorganChase, Microsoft, GitHub, NVIDIA, OpenAI, RAPIDFORT, Red Hat, Rust Foundation, Sonatype, Vodafone and Zscaler. Frontier AI models can now scan major software projects and surface vulnerabilities in minutes. To address this challenge, Akrites establishes a shared Security Incident Response Team (SIRT) and a standardized Coordinated Vulnerability Disclosure (CVD) process built on confidentiality-first principles. Backed by founding commitments from global technology leaders, AI labs, financial institutions, and security vendors, this initiative brings a unified, predictable partnership to upstream maintainers. Read the open letter and learn why top organizations are joining together in this critical effort https://lnkd.in/exs7y_2d and visit https://akrites.org to learn how to get involved.