The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a virtual workshop on June 2 and 3, 2021 to enhance the security of the software supply chain and to fulfill the President’s Executive Order on Improving the Cybersecurity of the Federal Government, issued on May 12, 2021.
Among other things, Section 4 of that Executive Order (EO) directs the Secretary of Commerce, through NIST, to consult with federal agencies, the private sector, academia, and other stakeholders in identifying standards, tools, best practices, and other guidelines to enhance software supply chain security. Those standards and guidelines will be used by other agencies to govern the federal government’s procurement of software. The EO includes additional assignments to NIST which will be addressed in other forums, although discussions at this workshop will inform those actions by NIST. This workshop focuses on assignments in Section 4 of the EO.
The goals of the workshop are to:
share NIST’s plans to develop software-related standards and guidelines called for by the Executive order, and
receive and discuss information and ideas about the approach and content that NIST should consider in developing those standards and guidelines.
The agenda for the two-day workshop, which will take place from 1-5 pm EDT on each day, will be based on submissions to NIST by the private, public, and non-profit sectors in the form of two-page position papers. These papers from organizations and individuals will be reviewed for their diversity of ideas in order to ensure that NIST considers a wide range of approache ..
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