Cybersecurity is foundational to the modern digital economy. As enterprise software powers critical infrastructure, financial systems, healthcare networks, supply chains, and government services, strong cybersecurity policies are essential to protect economic stability, national security, and public trust. Strong cybersecurity enables innovation by giving businesses and governments the confidence to adopt emerging technologies — including AI and cloud computing — quickly and at scale.

The Business Software Alliance (BSA) advocates for risk-based, globally interoperable laws and policies that empower public-private partnerships, and leverage internationally recognized standards and best practices to strengthen cybersecurity and resilience without stifling innovation.

Our priorities include:

• Promote risk-based cybersecurity frameworks that align obligations with actual risk — rejecting one-size-fits-all mandates and check-the-box compliance that fail to improve real-world security.
• Leverage AI to strengthen cybersecurity and secure AI systems themselves, recognizing that AI-driven tools enhance threat detection, improve resilience, and support trusted adoption across sectors.
• Advance regulatory alignment within and across governments to reduce fragmentation, increase clarity, and enable access to the most secure and innovative services.
• Modernize government IT systems to replace outdated, bespoke infrastructure with secure, scalable technologies capable of meeting citizens’ needs and defending against sophisticated threats.
• Accelerate the transition to post-quantum cryptography and strengthen resilience against emerging threats, including those enabled by AI.

Through this work, BSA underscores the role of enterprise software companies as trusted partners in building a more secure and resilient digital ecosystem.