The industry's collective response to the crisis was the Core Infrastructure Initiative, a multimillion-dollar project announced by the Linux Foundation on April 24, 2014 to provide funds to critical elements of the global information infrastructure.[192] The initiative intends to allow lead developers to work full-time on their projects and to pay for security audits, hardware and software infrastructure, travel, and other expenses.[193] OpenSSL is a candidate to become the first recipient of the initiative's funding.[192]
After the discovery Google established Project Zero which is tasked with finding zero-day vulnerabilities to help secure the Web and society.[194]
