By Jamie Bennet

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and the Office of Management and Budget released a secure development attestation form for software companies.

The form reinforces secure-by-design principles in software development as well as other practices specified in the Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, according to Eric Goldstein, CISA’s executive assistant director for cybersecurity, and Chris DeRusha, OMB federal chief information security officer and deputy national cyber director.

Software producers that sign the attestation document essentially pledge to be transparent and accountable for security outcomes and to build their software defense goals into the foundation of their organizational structure.

DeRusha, a Wash100 inductee, said in a statement with Goldstein that the form enables the government to protect its critical information systems while ensuring that those resources come from vendors that prioritize such secure principles.

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