President of USA signed Executive Order Charting New Course to Improve the Nation’s Cybersecurity and Protect Federal Government Networks. For our project, it is very important how it addresses Software Supply Chain Security.
Our Glog.ai project is exactly about this as we are on mission of making software more secure.
Here you can find fact sheet.
It says:
“Improve Software Supply Chain Security. The Executive Order will improve the security of software by establishing baseline security standards for development of software sold to the government, including requiring developers to maintain greater visibility into their software and making security data publicly available. It stands up a concurrent public-private process to develop new and innovative approaches to secure software development and uses the power of Federal procurement to incentivize the market. Finally, it creates a pilot program to create an “energy star” type of label so the government – and the public at large – can quickly determine whether software was developed securely. Too much of our software, including critical software, is shipped with significant vulnerabilities that our adversaries exploit. This is a long-standing, well-known problem, but for too long we have kicked the can down the road. We need to use the purchasing power of the Federal Government to drive the market to build security into all software from the ground up.”
Interesting text on Forbes magazine by Edward Segal titled “Biden Says Greater Private-Sector Investment In Cybersecurity Is Needed”.
One very important citation:
“The Executive Order will improve the security of software by establishing baseline security standards for development of software sold to the government, including requiring developers to maintain greater visibility into their software and making security data publicly available,” the White House said.
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