A warm welcome to the Software Safety Institute
A significant new voice for software safety has joined the field, and Adam is proud to lend his support.
We're excited for the launch of the Software Safety Institute, a new organization founded by Lauren Zabierek and Bob Lord. In Lauren's words:
Yesterday, 30 years after Aleph One’s “Smashing the Stack for Fun and Profit,” we released the first episode of The Bug We Let Live, a podcast about why memory-safety flaws persist.
Today, Bob Lord and I are launching the Software Safety Institute to ask what it will take to change the incentives behind preventable software defects.
Aleph One’s article taught a generation how to exploit memory-safety bugs. The underlying errors had been known for decades. We know how to prevent them. Yet they remain among the most serious flaws in the software we all depend on. That is a problem of incentives, not technology, and it’s why SSI exists.
Bob and I co-led the Secure by Design initiative at CISA. SSI builds on that work as an independent public-interest nonprofit, bringing its focus on accountability to the broader challenge of software safety. Cars, planes, and medicines became measurably safer over time. Software can too.
Adam is honored to be a founding member of their Advisory Council.
Header image provided by the Software Safety Institute.