Recently, dr. Slinger Jansen embarked on an initiative to secure the software ecosystem through distributed ledger technology and empirical software engineering. In essence, the team is creating a trust infrastructure under the software ecosystem of package managers, open source hubs, and systems using software. As part of this initiative, he and his team obtained a Take-off grant (40k euro) to explore how the SecureSECO project could result into business innovation in the domain of Cybersecurity, from NWO and the The Hague Municipality. More information about the Take-off grant and the SecureSECO project can be found on their respective websites.