NTIA’s 2018 cyber agenda will focus on ‘software component transparency,’ IoT security

The National Telecommunications and Information Administration will begin work in 2018 on promoting transparency in the software components in Internet of Things devices, addressing security and other IoT concerns, while continuing to promote work done the past two years on security patching and vulnerability disclosure.

“NTIA will continue to work with industry and security community partners to tackle important issues through open multistakeholder processes,” an NTIA spokesman told Inside Cybersecurity.

Part of that work will include promoting “the principles and...