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The $5 Billion Effort to Help Secure the World’s Shared Software

Gunnar Hellekson, Jen Easterly, Munish Sharma
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Malcolm Gladwell speaks with cybersecurity leaders about IBM and Red Hat's Lightwell initiative, a $5 billion project deploying 20,000 engineers to secure the open source software underpinning modern life. The conversation explores how AI is transforming vulnerability discovery, how open source introduces systemic risk into critical infrastructure, and what it takes to protect shared digital systems that banking, transportation, and payment networks depend on.

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Lightwell: $5 Billion Open Source Security Initiative
IBM and Red Hat launched Lightwell, a $5 billion initiative backed by 20,000 engineers to secure the open source software that powers critical infrastructure worldwide.
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AI Transforms Vulnerability Discovery in Open Source
AI is accelerating the discovery of vulnerabilities in open source software, changing how security teams identify and remediate risks.
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