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'); //]]>//--> By John K. Higgins Aug 3, 2021 2:08 PM PT The U.S. government is moving quickly and aggressively to address cybersecurity vulnerabilities affecting both the federal government and the private sector. In a sweeping executive order (EO), President Joseph Biden has directed federal agencies to set up multiple programs designed to mitigate the kinds of recent cybersecurity attacks that have gained national attention. The information technology sector, including companies that are directly and indirectly involved in providing IT products and services to the federal government, will ...

Updated Presented by With Daniel Lippman PHARMACEUTICAL COALITION HITS PINGREE, GOLDEN IN ESCALATING E-LABELING FIGHT: A coalition of drugmakers announced a new ad buy today as the lobbying battle about an obscure FDA spending rider moves to the House floor. The Alliance to Modernize Prescribing Information, whose members include AbbVie, AmerisourceBergen, Johnson & Johnson, Merck, Bristol Myers Squibb, Viatris, Pfizer and Teva, announced a 30-second ad targeting Maine Democrats Jared Golden, whom the group accuses of blocking the FDA from allowing pharmacists to opt out of the paper pamp...

Published July 22, 2021, 8:00 AM New public sector investments in national infrastructure call for the private sector to commit to design with licensed, cyber secure software – and shed decades old habit of using unlicensed software products. BSA The Software Alliance (BSA) is planning to conduct outreach to 20,000 engineering and design firms across the Southeast Asia region, including 5,000 private sector engineering and design firms in the Philippines as part of its campaign to fight the use of unlicensed software in the private sector. Working with software company Autodesk, Inc., BSA i...

BSA pushing for licensed software published : 21 Jul 2021 at 04:00 Tarun Sawney, senior director of BSA | The Software Alliance. The upsurge in unlicensed software usage is attributed to the rise of remote work and megastructure project development, according to BSA | The Software Alliance, a global software advocate, and the police's Economic Crime Suppression Division (ECD). In the first half of this year, losses from the use of unlicensed software amounted to 212 million baht, a rise from 195 million in the same period a year earlier, t...

NIST Defines ‘Critical Software,’ Implications to Follow The National Institute of Standards and Technology broke with tradition to define critical software based on what it does, not how it’s used by agencies. The vendor community should take notes. July 08, 2021 •  Shutterstock/PIYAWAT WONGOPASS 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 implementing President Biden’s May executive order ...