The White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) put out a report stating that in order to address the cause of many cyberattacks, future software should be developed with a memory-safe design. The release goes on to encourage the technical community to be proactive in the minimization of the cyberspace attack surface. By enforcing memory-safe programming languages, technology manufacturers can block off threats from encroaching the digital landscape.
“The report from the White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) underscores the need for companies across industries to prioritize the adoption of memory-safe programming languages as a means to mitigate costly cybersecurity attacks. From a developer standpoint, this carries some major implications. It means that we need to tackle the challenge that can be adopting memory safe programming languages, and we can expect languages like Rust to gain more traction. This is certainly a tall order as it’s not just about making sure a program is memory safe, but changing the default programming paradigm to memory safe.