The goal of the SecureSECO initiative is to secure and increase trust in the software ecosystem, through the use of distributed ledger technology and empirical software engineering research.
The software ecosystem is a trust-rich part of the world. Collaboratively, software engineers put their trust in major hubs in the ecosystem, such as package managers, repository services, and programming language ecosystems. However, there are many parts of the chain in which this trust can be broken. We present a vision for a trust ensuring mechanism in the software ecosystem that mitigates the presented risks. If our community manages to implement this mechanism, we can create an urgently needed secure software ecosystem.
The initiative is an academic initiative with partners from several universities and companies.
We are currently also looking for students and staff to conduct research projects.
Underlying the SecureSECO initiative is the SecureSECO foundation, which has as the aim to provide a long-term basis for the SecureSECO end products, such as the ledger and the initiative.
If you want to really understand SecureSECO, please dive deeper into the three sub projects that illustrate the power of a distributed ledger under the software ecosystem: SearchSECO, TrustSECO, and UseSECO.
CONNECTING WITH US
For more information, please contact us through slinger.jansen@uu.nl