Cyber policy vets at Lawfare announce software secure-by-design initiative

The Lawfare Institute has announced a “multi-year project” on secure-by-design software, aiming to address a series of fundamental questions in areas including metrics, standards and incentives, under an initiative led by two policy veterans that tracks with a top priority in the Biden administration’s national cyber strategy.

“[T]he Lawfare Institute is launching a multi-year project to evaluate several elements related to ‘security by design’ for software, including secure-by-design principles and how legal and policy processes could require or incentivize security...