ONCD plans to publish paper addressing memory safety, software measurability as part of secure by design work

National Cyber Director Harry Coker emphasized the need for the government and private sector to use memory-safe programming languages and revealed upcoming plans to publish a paper, at a Wednesday event billed as his first keynote appearance following Senate confirmation in December.

“I’m excited about the work ONCD’s talented staff is leading on the open research problem of software measurability that makes it difficult to understand the quality of the code we use. That work has its seeds in a...