By @SiliconANGLE
Publication Date: 2026-05-28 20:27:00
IBM Corp. and its Red Hat subsidiary today launched an initiative called Project Lightwell to improve the security of open-source projects.
Project Lightwell is backed by a $5 billion commitment. In addition, IBM and Red Hat will assign more than 20,000 engineers to the initiative.
Red Hat, which became part of IBM through a 2019 acquisition, sells a popular Linux distribution called RHEL. Its code is publicly available, but organizations must buy a license to use it in software projects. Red Hat also develops other open-source tools that automate tasks such as configuring cloud infrastructure.
The Linux distributor has long operated a program through which its engineers find and fix vulnerabilities in its software. Project Lightwell will extend IBM’s work in that area beyond the Red Hat product portfolio to the broader open-source ecosystem. According to the company, the goal is to help enterprises remediate vulnerabilities in the open-source tools that power their…
