The Office of the National Cyber Director released a new Technical Report titled “Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software.” This report builds upon the President’s National Cybersecurity Strategy, addressing the technical community to tackle undiscovered vulnerabilities that malicious actors can exploit.

Leading technology companies, academics, and civil society organizations applauded the Biden-Harris Administration’s efforts and underscored the importance of software measurability and memory safety.

Professor Dan Boneh states, "I read the White House report on ‘A Path Toward Secure and Measurable Software.’ It is impressive to see the White House take on the important topic of software security via the use of better programming languages. Memory safety bugs have led to numerous vulnerabilities in real-world systems. Software quality would be greatly improved if we could somehow wave a magic wand and have all existing software translated to a memory-safe language. Unfortunately, such a magic wand does not yet exist. The White House is taking a pragmatic approach, and is proposing to start this conversion with critical space systems, which is a good testing ground for the proposed approach. Preventing memory safety bugs is only the beginning of a long journey towards more secure software. Formal verification and confinement technologies are important tools in our arsenal, and I was happy to see that the White House is calling for further investment in these technologies."

Read The White House Press Release, 'Statements of Support for Software Measurability and Memory Safety.'