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The Importance of Paying Down IT Security Debt The Tradeoff Between New Features and Security In the fast-paced world of IT, there has always been a delicate balance between shipping new features and addressing technical debt. Technical debt encompasses a range of considerations, including reliability, performance, testing, and security. Unfortunately, in the “ship fast and…
The Shift towards Software Security Liability The recently released National Cybersecurity Strategy by President Biden’s administration highlights the need for organizations to take responsibility for their software security. The strategy argues that markets fail to impose adequate costs on entities that produce insecure software and calls for increased liability for shipping vulnerable products. This shift…
US Government Provides Guidance on Software Security Guarantee Requirements The US Office of Management and Budget (OMB) has issued new guidance on software security guarantee requirements for federal agencies. The existing memorandum issued by OMB last year required federal agencies to receive guarantees from software suppliers that their software is secure. The new memorandum extends…
Supply Chain Security Software Supply Chain: The Golden Container Ship Introduction In today’s era, cloud-native technologies are being utilized to increase flexibility, scaling, and cost savings in many ways and using a modern cloud stack using IaaS abstracts the hardware maintenance component. This enables us to use everything above it like an operating system and…
## OpenSSF Receives $5 Million for Open Source Software Security Project The Open Source Security Foundation (OpenSSF), hosted by the Linux Foundation, has added four new members and received $5 million in funding from Microsoft and Google for the Alpha-Omega project. This initiative aims to improve open source software security by identifying and patching vulnerabilities…