NTIA Plans Meeting to Update IoT Software Component Transparency Process

NTIA plans a virtual meeting Jan. 13 at noon EST to discuss progress in the multistakeholder process on promoting IoT software component transparency, says Friday’s Federal Register. “Modern development practices” such as code reuse and an information technology marketplace with many mergers and acquisitions “make it challenging to track the use of software components,” said the agency. IoT “compounds this phenomenon” with the layering of smart connectivity features on new devices, it said: “The sheer quantity of software means that some software products ship with vulnerable or out-of-date components.”