OMB looks for efficiencies in secure software, post-quantum cryptography policies

The Office of Management and Budget is seeking efficiencies to avoid a “sunk-cost-fallacy" on federal efforts to make investments in secure software and post-quantum cryptography, according to cyber official Nick Polk.

“We were really gratified" at OMB to work with the National Security Council in the current administration to make changes to former President Biden's Jan. 16 cyber executive order, Polk said at an industry event, "to really rationalize what we want to carry forward in the name of...