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White House's Call for Memory Safety Brings Challenges, Changes & Costs

ID: 51cfa786-8f5e-5ea7-95eb-79513ae1f4df

STIX ID: report--51cfa786-8f5e-5ea7-95eb-79513ae1f4df

Feed Name: Dark Reading

Date Published: 2024-04-05

Date Updated: 2026-04-21

Author: Neatsun Ziv

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This commentary reviews the ONCD report urging an industry-wide move to memory-safe programming languages to reduce memory-safety vulnerabilities, outlines the practical and economic challenges of migrating legacy C/C++ systems, notes mitigating advances in code-analysis and compiler technologies, and recommends practical steps—education, phased transitions, automation, governance, and cross-sector collaboration—to implement the strategy.

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