Description

Red Hat and its parent company, IBM, have been among the most vocal advocates for an open ecosystem to mitigate the new risks emerging in the agentic AI era. In the past three months, the two companies have been part of multiple efforts to shore up open source software security and supply chains. However, in many ways, the longstanding issues in the industry with open source sustainability and cybersecurity diligence are bigger than even multiple large IT vendors. Will the scope and scale of agentic AI security risks finally be what forces systemic change?

Featuring: Brian Gracely, senior director of portfolio strategy, Red Hat

In today's episode, we'll cover:

• The state of industry debate about open-weight models
• Agentic AI's effect on open source's "tragedy of the commons"
• Lightwell's approach to OSS security
• What enterprise IT leaders should know about open source sustainability and security going forward

And more!

References:

• Red Hat and IBM, Chainguard take on OSS security risk
• Cisco agentic AI security push faces enterprise trust gap
• Open source software's tragedy of the commons

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