In the beginning, we identified two major types of software supply chain attacks and nine minor types. The world keeps insisting on a broader definition. In the spring of 2020, it really mattered to ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critical software,” — a key, early stage step to ...

What does "open source" mean? With open source software being so prevalent in our lives (Android, WordPress, Mozilla Firefox are almost fixtures), you would think that it would be simple enough to ...

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 ...

(1) Software that is free of charge. See freeware. (2) Software that is free of restrictions and which may be free of charge. Free software licenses grant users the freedom to use it for any purpose, ...