ONCD releases report on the adoption of memory-safe languages

The White House’s Office of the National Cyber Director released a technical report urging software and hardware makers to adopt memory-safe programming languages and develop empirical metrics to measure software cybersecurity quality. Framed within the national cybersecurity strategy, the effort aims to reduce pervasive memory safety vulnerabilities—highlighted by Microsoft’s estimate that ~70% of vulnerabilities are memory-related—while acknowledging the multi-decade challenge of migrating large codebases. The announcement is backed by industry and academic support and encourages open-source ecosystems as testbeds for improved measurability.