Socket Joins New OpenJS Program to Fund Node.js Security Work
Brief
Socket has joined the OpenJS Foundation’s new Security Stewardship Program as an inaugural partner, helping fund vulnerability research, triage, patching, and security releases across the JavaScript ecosystem.
The program launches with an initial focus on Node.js, where the security workload is growing faster than the funding available to support it.
“AI is driving a sharp rise in vulnerability reports, pushing many open source projects to shut down their bug bounty programs. The bottleneck is now remediation,” Socket CEO Feross Aboukhadijeh said. “We’re backing the SSP to make that work paid and sustainable across the Node. js ecosystem.”
Bug Bounty Funding Is Drying Up Across the Industry #
Projects and vendors are already changing how they handle the growing volume of vulnerability reports.