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White House to study open source software in critical infrastructure

ID: e06b9925-45eb-5159-a0c1-4fdc85618fb2

STIX ID: report--e06b9925-45eb-5159-a0c1-4fdc85618fb2

Feed Name: CyberScoop

Date Published: 2024-08-09

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Christian Vasquez

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### Executive Summary: The Office of the National Cyber Director announced a new initiative, housed within DHS and supported by DOE national labs, to study and improve the security of open-source software in critical infrastructure; the report summarizes community input calling for more resources for maintainers and consideration of memory-safe languages such as Rust, and cites the Log4J incident as an example of ongoing ecosystem risk.

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