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Senate Bill Would Direct CISA To Develop Risk Framework For Open Source Software

By Cal Biesecker

Thursday, September 22nd, 2022

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Senate Bill Would Direct CISA To Develop Risk Framework For Open Source Software

Sen. Gary Peters (D-Mich.), chairman of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee

The chairman and ranking member of the Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Thursday introduced a bill to strengthen the security of open source software, which is widely used in digital systems. The Securing Open Source Software Act (S. 4913) calls for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) to develop a risk framework for open source software for use by the federal government and evaluate how the framework could be used on a voluntary basis by critical…

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