CISA enters new stage of secure by design efforts targeted at addressing economic demand, consumer awareness

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is shifting its focus for the secure by design initiative to creating economic demand for secure software, as the agency enters the second year of its efforts to promote software development best practices.

“If customers can better make these demands [and] asks of their vendors for specific security considerations built in from the start, we think we can see dramatic improvements,” CISA senior technical advisor Jack Cable said Thursday in a virtual event...