CITATION — REFERENCE ENTRY
Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software — Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
- Key
- white-house-memory-safety-2024
- Issued
- 2024-2-26
- Type
- report
- Publisher
- Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House
Raw CSL JSON
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"URL": "https://www.whitehouse.gov/oncd/briefing-room/2024/02/26/press-release-technical-report/",
"type": "report",
"title": "Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software",
"issued": {
"date-parts": [
[
2024,
2,
26
]
]
},
"publisher": "Office of the National Cyber Director, The White House"
}
Claims
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The White House ONCD released a report calling on technology manufacturers to adopt memory safe programming languages to prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities from entering the digital ecosystem.
"ONCD makes the case that technology manufacturers can prevent entire classes of vulnerabilities from entering the digital ecosystem by adopting memory safe programming languages."
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National Cyber Director Harry Coker stated the U.S. has the ability and responsibility to reduce the attack surface in cyberspace by moving to memory safe programming languages.
""We, as a nation, have the ability – and the responsibility – to reduce the attack surface in cyberspace and prevent entire classes of security bugs from entering the digital ecosystem but that means we need to tackle the hard problem of moving to memory safe programming languages," said National Cyber Director Harry Coker."
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