The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critical software,” — a key, early stage step to ...

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As called for in the May 12, 2021 Cybersecurity Executive Order (“EO”) released by the Biden Administration (discussed here), NIST met its deadline to release a definition of “critical software” ...

The goal is to enable stronger security practices for government-purchased software mandated by President Biden's cybersecurity executive order. The EO stipulates that NIST’s definition “shall reflect ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new definition of "critical software" is foundational to new federal efforts to exert more control over the code supply chain. CISA Contracts NIST ...

It used to be simple. A software company was a commercial producer of software – a customer would buy software and use it internally to get the job done. But things are changing. As companies learn to ...