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 ...

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As automakers push forward in the quest for software-defined vehicles, analysts and software experts are suggesting a system to clarify the stages of the transition. Stakeholders are seeking to create ...

To help agencies comply with the Biden administration’s cybersecurity executive order, the National Institute of Standards and Technology on June 25 posted a new definition of "critical software" for ...

The concept of software as a service (SaaS) took hold at a time when IT executives were getting supremely fed up with the ballooning costs of packaged enterprise software. Not only did they have to ...

An approach to designing and operating large-scale networks that is based on programming the forwarding decisions in routers and switches via software from a central server. Software-defined ...