If you think about the world around us, the meaning of completing a certain well-defined task usually remains constant. If someone tells you that they just built a house, you can develop expectations ...

Allegion SVP and chief information and digital officer, responsible for IT and security, data and analytics, and digital programs globally. Quality is a broad term; one that is hard to define. Despite ...

Sun's president Jonathan Schwartz has angered some in the free software community by appearing to misrepresent what open source is. In Schwartz's opening keynote at the JavaOne conference on Monday he ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critical software,” — a key, early stage step to ...

The goal is to enable stronger security practices for government-purchased software mandated by President Biden's cybersecurity executive order. The EO stipulates that NIST’s definition “shall reflect ...