Federal officials: Industry input essential to development, implementation of secure government software

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is committed to working with industry to get feedback on the implementation of standards for secure software as part of President Biden’s cyber executive order, according to the National Security Council’s Jeffrey Greene, who says he hopes this will galvanize engagement efforts similar to the development of the NIST cybersecurity framework.

Greene described NIST’s workshop on Wednesday focused on Section 4 of the EO, “Enhancing Software Supply Chain Security,” as the start...