Cybersecurity

Software innovation continues to connect people across the world and transform daily business practices. These online connections create efficiencies and spur economic growth, but they also create vulnerabilities that bad actors can exploit if the proper security measures are not in place. Addressing cybersecurity challenges requires innovative practices and tools to defend the integrity, privacy, and resilience of the Internet ecosystem.

BSA supports efforts to improve governments and industries capabilities and readiness to address cybersecurity threats. This includes promoting a secure software ecosystem, strengthening cybersecurity workforce capabilities, supporting policies that enable the development of cutting-edge cybersecurity technologies, and other steps to secure and defend information infrastructure.

Download: Securing Tomorrow: BSA’s Cybersecurity Priorities and Software’s Essential Role

FEATURED POLICY RESEARCH / POSITION PAPERS

Cybersecurity

US: Building a More Effective Strategy for ICT Supply Chain Security

FEB 16, 2021 | US

The Biden Administration and the 117th Congress should take a new, more effective approach to Information and Communications Technology (ICT) supply chain security. That process should begin by pausing and assessing the inventory of US supply chain security rules to move forward more effectively with a holistic and sustainable set of policies to improve security.

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2021 BSA US Policy Agenda

FEB 03, 2021 | US

BSA calls for responsible tech policies to promote inclusive economic opportunity

Cybersecurity

BSA Priorities in Cybersecurity

NOV 18, 2020 | US

BSA calls on the incoming Administration to take robust action to confront cybersecurity threats and elevate US global cybersecurity leadership. Immediate priorities should include securing the software ecosystem, recalibrating supply chain policies, securing the Internet of Things, advancing cybersecurity through digital transformation, and organizing the government to combat cyber threats.

Cybersecurity

Updated: BSA Framework for Secure Software

SEP 22, 2020 | GLOBAL

BSA’s first-of-its-kind framework is a flexible and holistic approach to guide and assess efforts to enhance software security.

Cybersecurity

Securing 5G: A Call to Harness Software Innovation

JUL 21, 2020 | GLOBAL

Governments across the globe are racing to develop and deploy 5G technologies because of the enormous potential of 5G networks to transform businesses and individual lives. 5G networks will bring quantum leaps in speed, latency reduction, and flexibility that enable a wide range of new applications. In particular, 5G will support massive expansion of the Internet of Things (IoT), which is expected to grow to more than 200 billion devices by 2023. Together, these technologies will fundamentally reshape the global economy, improve the quality of life for billions of individuals, reshape the digital ecosystem, and transform how humans interact with the physical world.

Cybersecurity

BSA Policy Principles for Building a Secure and Trustworthy Internet of Things

JUL 02, 2020 | GLOBAL

As trusted leaders in the global software industry, BSA members are at the forefront of Internet of Things (IoT) innovation, including advancements in IoT security. BSA endorses the following principles for building trust in the IoT that embody a responsible, risk-based approach to government IoT security policy.

THE LATEST POLICY NEWS

A Major Industry Group Wants Biden To Focus on Supply-Chain Security

FEB 17, 2021 | US

Washington Post, February 17, 2021. BSA | The Software Alliance, is urging the Biden administration and Congress to work together with the tech industry to create a way for information about supply-chain threats to be shared. Read more

Cybersecurity

BSA White Paper Advocates for ‘Assurance-Based’ Approach To Address ICT Supply Chain Threats

FEB 17, 2021 | US

Inside Cybersecurity, February 17, 2021. “Global ICT supply chains continue to be important for the digital economy, but we need a modernized approach to supply chain security,” BSA said in a report released Tuesday. Read more

Cybersecurity

Industry Groups Urge Congress To Include Cybersecurity Funding in Coronavirus Relief Package

FEB 16, 2021 | US

Washington Post, February 16, 2021. Cybersecurity groups are urging Congress to make federal and state cybersecurity funding a priority as lawmakers iron out a $1.9 trillion dollar coronavirus relief package. Read more

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