{"id":1010645,"date":"2026-05-29T08:42:14","date_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:12:14","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/?p=1010645"},"modified":"2026-05-29T08:43:32","modified_gmt":"2026-05-29T03:13:32","slug":"ibm-commits-5-billion-to-secure-open-source-software","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/2026\/05\/29\/ibm-commits-5-billion-to-secure-open-source-software\/","title":{"rendered":"IBM commits $5 billion to secure open-source software"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said on Thursday it has committed $5 billion to an initiative that will deploy engineers and AI tools to help companies better secure open source software. <\/p>\n<p>The initiative, called Project Lightwell, seeks to create a &#8220;clearinghouse&#8221; for open source security, establishing a model for managing risks across the software supply \u200cchain. <\/p>\n<p>Open source \u2060software \u2060is freely available code that anyone can use and modify, and powers the \u200btechnology systems of most companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>IBM said on Thursday it has committed $5 billion to an initiative that will deploy engineers and AI tools to help companies better secure open source software. The initiative, called Project Lightwell, seeks to create a &#8220;clearinghouse&#8221; for open source security, establishing a model for managing risks across the software supply \u200cchain. Open source \u2060software \u2060is freely available code that anyone can use and modify, and powers the \u200btechnology systems of most companies.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[59,4,10],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1010645","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-it-2-the-economic-times","category-newspapers","category-the-economic-times"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010645","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1010645"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010645\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1010667,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1010645\/revisions\/1010667"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1010645"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1010645"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/telecomlive.in\/web\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1010645"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}