The main priorities of the Open Source Hardening Project initiative include:

• Identifying and fixing existing vulnerabilities
• Developing systems with fewer vulnerabilities
• Assessing emerging technologies for vulnerabilities

Other priorities include:

• Securing the Internet
• Improving the security of key Internet protocols
• Fixing vulnerable software
• Securing emerging systems

In collaboration with the U.S. government, Coverity Inc. uses scans to prevent, identify and fix security problems in open-source software. The security level of an open-source software program is classified in rungs.