
The Senate Homeland Security and Governmental Affairs Committee on Wednesday approved several bills aimed at strengthening the nation’s cyber and border security, including a measure that would direct the Department of Homeland Security to develop a risk framework that the federal government would use for open source software. The Securing Open Source Software Act (S. 4913) also calls for the DHS Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) to evaluate how the open source software risk framework could be used voluntarily by…