Oct 1, 2021
Welcome back to the Community Podcasts, a mini-series on the Kaspersky Transatlantic Cable podcast. As always, my co-host for this series is Anastasiya Kazakova, a Senior Public Affairs Manager who coordinates global cyber diplomacy projects at Kaspersky.
As a reminder, the Community Podcasts is a short series of
podcasts featuring frank cyber diplomacy conversations with
cyber-heroes who unite people despite everything – growing
fragmentation, confrontation, and cyber threats – there are people
who build communities and unite people to work together for the
common good. Why are they doing this? And are their efforts
working?
Our third episode includes a chat with Kate Stewart - co-chair of
one of the working groups within of National Telecommunications and
Information Administration’s cyber-security multi-stakeholder
process for Software Component Transparency.
NTIA has years of experience in conducting open, multi-stakeholder processes to help make progress on issues such as finding common ground on cyber-security vulnerability disclosure, developing clear policy guidance on the secure update of IoT devices, and providing more transparency about data collected by mobile apps. But today we will focus on this multi-stakeholder process for Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) or software component transparency.
During our extended conversation, we discuss a wide array of topics from the need for collaboration between the public/private sector, what working with governments has been like, what the future holds for FIRST and incident respondent in general, how to make sure that they remain neutral in cyber ‘firefighting’, and more.