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Feds: Critical Software Must Drop C/C++ by 2026 or Face Risk
This is the government's strongest stance yet on software security, which puts manufacturers on notice: fix dangerous coding practices or risk being labeled as negligent.
“CISA’s Secure by Design document recognizes that software maintainers simply cannot migrate their code bases en masse like that.” Finally, it is good that CISA is recommending that companies with critical software in their care should create a stated plan of attack by early 2026, Shimmin said. “Those means will likely involve hardware manufacturing shoring up potential attack vectors and programming language maintainers coming up with things ideas like the Safe C++ proposal), which calls for the creation of a superset for C++ that addresses memory safety issues without forcing major code rewrites,” he said.
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