

The Heartbleed bug was eventually patched, but 7 percent of Internet servers today are still vulnerable to Heartbleed, despite the fact that the patch was released 3 years ago and was considered a critical security vulnerability. Its mission is to improve the security of open-source software, an essential part of the Internet ecosystem.ĬII was created after the 2014 Heartbleed bug found in OpenSSL, which left approximately 70 percent of the HTTPS services on the Internet vulnerable to security breaches of sensitive information. His talk focused on his role as head of Linux’s Core Infrastructure Initiative (CII), a nonprofit organization funded by the information technology industry that provides training, testing, and financial support for software security projects.

Nicko van Someren is the chief technology officer of the Linux Foundation and a fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering in the United Kingdom.
