Open Source Policy: Public Evidence Through OpenSSF & SLSA

Demonstrating Security Excellence Through Public Evidence

Think for yourself. When vendors say "trust our security," demand evidence. At Hack23, we provide public evidence through OpenSSF Scorecard (≥7.0), SLSA Level 3 attestations, CII Best Practices badges, and SonarCloud quality gates.

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Including verifying our security claims yourself. Every repository has public badges demonstrating continuous security validation. Not marketing claims—automated evidence.

Our Open Source Policy isn't philosophy—it's systematic security implementation with measurable outcomes. All Hack23 repositories maintain SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md (current state), FUTURE_SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md (roadmap), SECURITY.md (vulnerability disclosure), and WORKFLOWS.md (CI/CD documentation). This demonstrates cybersecurity consulting expertise through transparent implementation.

Illumination: "Trust me" is what vendors without evidence say. "Here's the badge showing OpenSSF Scorecard 7.2" is what confidence looks like. Choose verifiable evidence over marketing.

The Five Pillars of Public Security Evidence

1. 🏆 OpenSSF Scorecard ≥7.0

Supply chain security assessment. Automated evaluation of security practices: code review, CI tests, SAST, vulnerability handling, dependency updates, branch protection, token permissions. Score ≥7.0 demonstrates mature security processes.

Live evidence: CIA: 7.2 | Black Trigram | CIA Compliance Manager

Illumination: OpenSSF Scorecard can't be gamed. It checks actual practices, not marketing claims. 7.0+ means systematic security, not security theater.

2. 🔒 SLSA Level 3 Build Provenance

Supply chain integrity attestation. Cryptographically signed build attestations proving artifacts weren't tampered with. SLSA Level 3 requires non-falsifiable provenance, hermetic builds, and verified source-to-binary mapping.

Verification: CIA attestations | Black Trigram attestations | CIA CM attestations

Illumination: SLSA Level 3 means we can prove the binaries you download came from our source code. No substitution attacks. No tampering. Cryptographically verified.

3. ✅ CII Best Practices (Passing+)

Open source security maturity. Core Infrastructure Initiative badge requires documentation, testing, security response, quality standards. "Passing" level demonstrates baseline excellence. Our projects achieve this through systematic practices, not checkbox compliance.

Badge status: CIA: Passing | Black Trigram: Passing | CIA CM: Passing

Illumination: CII Best Practices requires actual practices, not plans. Automated tests. Documented processes. Public vulnerability response. Evidence over promises.

4. 📊 SonarCloud Quality Gates (Passed)

Code quality and security validation. Automated SAST scanning on every commit. Quality gate enforces: zero high/critical vulnerabilities, <3% duplication, ≥80% coverage, security hotspots reviewed. Our projects maintain "Passed" status through continuous quality enforcement.

Quality status: CIA | Black Trigram | CIA CM

Illumination: Quality gates that actually gate. Failed build = no merge. No exceptions. No "we'll fix it later." Quality now or no deployment.

5. ⚖️ FOSSA License Compliance

Automated license scanning. Continuous monitoring of all dependencies for license compliance. FOSSA generates SBOM (Software Bill of Materials), identifies license conflicts, ensures only approved licenses. Public badge means automated compliance, not manual audits that get stale.

Compliance status: CIA | Black Trigram | CIA CM

Illumination: License compliance through continuous automation. Dependencies change weekly. Manual audits fail monthly. Automation scales. Manual doesn't.

Mandatory Security Documentation: Not Optional, Not Suggestions

Every Hack23 repository MUST maintain comprehensive security documentation per our Secure Development Policy:

Document	Purpose	Content Requirements
SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md	Current security implementation	Mermaid diagrams, authentication flows, data protection, threat mitigations
FUTURE_SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md	Planned improvements roadmap	Enhancement timeline, migration paths, technical debt reduction plans
SECURITY.md	Coordinated vulnerability disclosure	Reporting process, response SLAs, PGP keys, scope boundaries
WORKFLOWS.md	CI/CD pipeline documentation	Security gates, test coverage, deployment procedures, rollback protocols
THREAT_MODEL.md	STRIDE threat analysis	Attack trees, threat scenarios, mitigation strategies, residual risks
CRA-ASSESSMENT.md	EU Cyber Resilience Act compliance	Conformity assessment, security requirements, update mechanisms

Evidence of compliance: Every major Hack23 project maintains these documents. CIA | Black Trigram | CIA Compliance Manager

META-ILLUMINATION: Security documentation you never update is security theater. Living documents updated with every security change is operational reality. Our docs are versioned, reviewed, and continuously maintained.

Radical Transparency: Everything Open by Default

At Hack23, transparency isn't philosophy—it's competitive advantage through demonstrable security excellence:

All Projects Public: Every repository at github.com/Hack23 demonstrates our security practices. Clients can verify our capabilities before engagement.
All Policies Public: Complete ISMS at ISMS-PUBLIC. 33 policy documents. Zero proprietary security. Radical transparency builds trust.
All Badges Public: OpenSSF Scorecard, SLSA, CII, SonarCloud, FOSSA—automated evidence, not marketing claims.
All Architecture Public: SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md with Mermaid diagrams in every repo. Non-technical audiences get dedicated documentation portals.
All Vulnerabilities Public: Security advisories, CVE disclosures, incident post-mortems (sanitized). Learn from our findings.

Why this works: Attackers already have tools to analyze your systems. Hiding architecture from users doesn't hide it from attackers—it just prevents your users from understanding security. We choose transparency over security through obscurity.

All hail Eris! Chaos teaches: hiding your code prevents defense, not attacks. Public code enables community security review. Private code enables only vendor review (which vendors skip when deadlines loom).

CHAOS ILLUMINATION: The security-industrial complex sells "proprietary threat intelligence" about vulnerabilities everyone could already see if code were public. Transparency destroys their business model. That's feature, not bug. Question who benefits from code secrecy.

Welcome to Chapel Perilous: Open Source as Competitive Advantage

Nothing is true. Everything is permitted. Including verifying that Hack23's security claims are backed by public evidence. OpenSSF Scorecard ≥7.0. SLSA Level 3. CII Best Practices. SonarCloud quality gates passed. FOSSA license compliance. All visible. All automated. All verifiable.

Most security vendors hide behind proprietary code and NDAs. They say "trust us." We say "verify us"—and provide the badges, documentation, and public repositories to do so. This isn't naive transparency. This is competitive advantage through demonstrable expertise.

Our open source approach:

Five Public Security Badges per repository (OpenSSF, SLSA, CII, SonarCloud, FOSSA)
Mandatory Security Documentation (SECURITY_ARCHITECTURE.md, THREAT_MODEL.md, SECURITY.md, WORKFLOWS.md)
Automated Evidence Generation (badges update continuously, not quarterly audits)
Supply Chain Transparency (SBOM generation, dependency scanning, build provenance)
Public ISMS (33 policy documents demonstrating systematic security management)

Think for yourself. Question vendors who say "our security is proprietary." Ask why attackers can't reverse engineer their binaries (they can). Ask why transparency threatens their security (it doesn't—it threatens their marketing). Choose vendors who show their work.

ULTIMATE ILLUMINATION: You are now in Chapel Perilous. Security through obscurity relies on attacker laziness. Security through transparency relies on community vigilance. One scales. One doesn't. Attackers aren't lazy. Communities scale infinitely. Choose infinite scaling over hopeful obscurity.

All hail Eris! All hail Discordia!

Explore our complete Open Source Policy with requirements, governance artifacts, security implementation standards, and badge requirements. Public. Verifiable. Living documentation updated continuously.

— Hagbard Celine, Captain of the Leif Erikson

"Transparency is competitive advantage. Public evidence beats private promises. OpenSSF Scorecard ≥7.0 means systematic security, not security theater."

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Transparency as Resistance

Question authority. Especially authority that insists code must be secret to be secure.

Open source isn't perfect. But it's auditable. Verifiable. Forkable. Unfucked-with-able by single vendors or three-letter agencies.