Welcoming Daniel Scherzer to the Ecosystem Security Team

When the Ecosystem Security Team was established with funding from the Alpha-Omega “Security Engineer in Residence” grant, its mission was to improve the security of all aspects of the PHP ecosystem. Under the leadership of Volker Dusch, the team has accomplished many things. As predicted, the increasing popularity of AI tools has brought an influx of security reports and PRs from the community to php-src itself. The triaging, reviewing, and handling of issues that do not fall within PHP’s…