OSSVerse: A Trusted Marketplace for Open Source Software Services

OSSVerse is a revolutionary open network designed to connect businesses with reliable open source software service providers. Imagine an ecosystem where you can easily find, evaluate, and procure trusted open source solutions. That's the vision behind OSSVerse.

Why an Open Source Marketplace?

The widespread adoption of Open Source Software (OSS) across industries has brought immense innovation but also unique security challenges. One of the primary barriers to OSS adoption is the lack of trust. Given the vastness of the open source ecosystem, many organizations lack internal expertise or find it difficult to maintain dedicated teams to effectively evaluate, assess, and remediate open source components. Additionally, the fragmented open source vendor landscape and the complexities of managing multiple vendor support subscriptions have created a demand for external services such as Open Source Assurance Service Providers (OASP).

For organizations to sustain the power of open source solutions, they require timely support for consuming or onboarding open source components, such as open source projects, open source AI models, and open source training datasets.

Barriers to Open Source Adoption:

• Supply chain and security risks
• Limited control and support
• Forking costs
• Incomplete security, uncertain reliability
• Fragmented knowledge

OSSVerse as a Solution:

A trustworthy marketplace for Open Source Assurance Service Providers (OASP) backed by a thriving open-source security community. Affordable and timely access to vendor-neutral security services for organizations producing and consuming open source. OASP-led open source assurance service delivery would give full control over their open source components.

Key Features :

Open Network: OSSVerse fosters an open network of Open Source Assurance Providers (OSAPs) to offer businesses a diverse range of security and assurance services.

Trust and Verification: Every service provider on OSSVerse undergoes rigorous verification processes to ensure the quality and reliability of their offerings.

Beckn and Be-Secure Integration: Built on the Beckn protocols and leveraging Be-Secure, OSSVerse enables seamless and efficient transactions within the open source software ecosystem while providing robust security assurance services.

Network Participants

Buyers

• Open Source Software Producers (OSSP): Original creator authors, inventors, publishers, contributors, or maintainers of open source projects, models, open source datasets, or solutions.
• Open Source Software Consumers (OSSC): Organizations that are primarily consumers of open source projects, models, or training data sets. Looking for support with evaluation, assurance, and open source vendor management services.
• Open Source Software Distributors (OSSD): Organizations that bundle or distribute open source software downstream to their customers. They are looking at support with security assurance, open source risk & compliance assessments.

Sellers

• Open Source Assurance Service Provider (OASP): Provide validation, verification, attestation, and support services. Set up dedicated remediated pipelines for organizations and open source security labs. Validate open source projects, open source models, open source training datasets, and offer security verification and assurance services to organizations.
• Security Experts & Freelancers: Employment opportunities for Seurity experts and freelancer with OASPs offering open source security assessments and support services.

Marketplace Operators

Open Source Marketplace Operator/Consortia: Deploys people resources to maintain and operate the marketplace and is responsible for the marketplace's governance.

Services Offered by OASPs on the Marketplace

• Security Assessment & Attestation Service
• Validation & Verification Service
• Open Source Software (OSS) Remediation Service
• OSS Pentesting Service
• OSS Feature Addition
• Trusted And Verified Open Source Software (TAVOSS) Version Support & Distribution

Marketplace Services

• Sale of Open Source Software Support & Subscription Services
• OASP Discovery Service and Open Source Vendor Management Support for Businesses
• TAVOSS Certification Issuance for Open Source & Exchange of Verifiable Credentials
• OSS Security Lab Setup and Support Services for OASPs
• OASP License Issuance

Benefits for Businesses

Buyers

• Trustworthy Marketplace
• Access Affordable & Prompt Vendor-Neutral Security Services
• Timely Support
• Full Control

Sellers

• Enhanced Trust and Credibility
• Marketability
• Compliance and Standards
• Competitive Advantage
• Quality Assurance
• Legal Protection