Upstream 2024 | Fireside chat: How a large Canadian telecommunications organization built an OSPO

When this Canadian telecommunications’ corporate security team came up with directives and policies, they realized that many of these security directives were around open source-and there was no shared foundation in IT on how to follow them. There was no support, tooling, guidance around licensing.
This was back in 2019, long before Log4Shell shook the world. This telecommunications company knew that they wanted to leverage the strategic advantages of open source to compete in the telecom market, so they decided to build a process around open source internally, and the OSPO was created.
In this fireside chat, Tidelift VP of product Lauren Hanford sits down with Aisha Gautreau, who leads the OPSO at this large Canadian telecommunications company, to hear about the journey of this nascent OSPO and what advantages they have leveraged so far.