NTIA's Friedman 'encouraged' by meeting on software transparency initiative; pilot-program concerns lurk

The leader of a National Telecommunications and Information Administration initiative to encourage better cyber risk management by fostering a market for software transparency is expressing optimism following stakeholders' most recent meeting, although documents from the event suggest questions remain on working group alignment and the extent to which the groups' findings can be made public.

“The working groups now have a clear vision of what their initial contributions and outputs will be, sketching out what [a Software Bill of Materials]...