Open Source Security Podcast

About Open Source Security Podcast

Open Source Security is a media project to help showcase and educate on open source security. Our goal is to give the community a platform educate both developers and users on how open source security works. There's a lot of good work happening that doesn't get attention because there's no marketing department behind it, they don't have a developer relations team posting on LinkedIn every two hours. Let's focus on those people and teams then learn what they do and how they do it. The goal is to hear from the people doing the work, they know what's up, they have a lot to teach us. We just have to listen.

Publisher

Josh Bressers

Category

technology · technology

Language

en

Explicit

Yes

First episode

6 Sept 2016

Latest episode

5 Oct 2026

Latest episodes

139 of 550 episodes have a transcript.

1. 

   5 Oct 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Dependency attacks in 2026 with James Matchett

   Host Josh opensource security interviews Cloudsmith's Jeff Matchett about a new report revealing surprising dependency attack statistics and the necessity of defense in depth.

2. 

   28 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   Sovereignty, policy, and OpenUK with Amanda Brock

   Host Josh interviews Amanda Brock of OpenUK about how national sovereignty and policy shape the global open source landscape.

3. 

   21 Sept 2026TRANSCRIPT

   The curl summer of Bliss with Daniel and Stefan

   Host Josh B. interviews curl's Daniel Stenberg and Stefan K. about their pragmatic approach to open-source security and the surprising results of a vulnerability reporting pause.

Inside a recent episode

Dependency attacks in 2026 with James Matchett

Published 5 Oct 2026 · Transcript excerpt

[…] 100%. And sometimes you don't even know what you're scanning or what you're pulling until you go to pull it. And this is why having this system, this dependency firewall is the term we like to use. Every time a developer goes to the Internet to try and pull something is so vital. and we try to encourage this thing called soak policies or delay policies you know sometimes if you want to pull latest we might say well maybe that's not such a good idea maybe you want to install the latest version you can that's at least seven days old because at least by then the community the threat community has had a chance to analyze it tear it apart and it gives you a limit of protection but it comes with a caveat let's say you have a soak policy for seven days And then the vendor comes out and says, here, critical security patch, we're fixing a massive hole. […]

Who has been a guest on Open Source Security Podcast

Names identified in recent episode analyses. Showing up to five guests.

• James Matchett
• Amanda Brock
• Daniel
• Stefan
• Daniel Thompson

Reach and audience

Public platform figures. Ratings count people who left a rating, not total listeners.

YouTube views

3,249

Score snapshot 15 Sept 2025

Apple Podcasts (US)

4.7 / 5

40 ratings

Podcast Authority Score: 83 / 100

A composite of feed quality, social presence, YouTube performance and engagement. Read the methodology.

Quality

97

Social presence

0

YouTube

74

Engagement

96

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Books guests

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