THE ASSURANCE COVERS THE OPEN SOURCE COMPLIANCE PROGRAM
Based on Bureau Veritas audit, Hitachi Energy has achieved OpenChain (ISO/IEC 5230) certification, the leading global standard for open source compliance. This milestone underscores their dedication to delivering products that meet the highest standards of quality, security, and transparency.
By attaining ISO/IEC 5230 certification, Hitachi Energy demonstrates a mature and reliable open source compliance program that partners and customers can trust.
This achievement reduces legal and operational risks, streamlines documentation, and ensures consistent, well-governed use of open source technologies across our organization. It also strengthens our position in global supply chains, where ISO/IEC 5230 certification is increasingly recognized as a mark of professionalism and readiness for evolving regulatory requirements such as the Cyber Resilience Act.
The certification brings tangible benefits to our customers and partners. It enables faster collaboration and onboarding, minimizes audit requirements, and ensures predictable, high-quality products through standardized and repeatable compliance processes. Ultimately, it reflects our commitment to building trust and fostering strong relationships throughout the technology ecosystem.
Why is Bureau Veritas the right partner for this certification?
Thanks to this project, Bureau Veritas confirms its pioneering role in cybersecurity certification, based on the most innovative international best practices.
Bureau Veritas offers a comprehensive cybersecurity services portfolio, leveraging global expertise to ensure a consistent customer experience across all areas of cybersecurity.
What is the OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230 Standard?
The OpenChain Project has an extensive global community of over 1,000 companies collaborating to make the supply chain quicker, more effective and more efficient. It maintains OpenChain ISO/IEC 5230, the international standard for open source license compliance programs and OpenChain ISO/IEC 18974, the industry standard for open source security assurance programs.
Who oversees the OpenChain Standard?
The Linux Foundation is the world’s leading home for collaboration on open source software, hardware, standards, and data. Linux Foundation projects are critical to the world’s infrastructure, including Linux, Kubernetes, Node.js, ONAP, PyTorch, RISC-V, SPDX, OpenChain, and more. The Linux Foundation focuses on leveraging best practices and addressing the needs of contributors, users, and solution providers to create sustainable models for open collaboration.
