Challenges and Recommendations
On October 27th, 2022, Consumer Reports hosted an online convening to discuss ways to encourage widespread adoption of code written in memory-safe languages. The event was hosted by Amira Dhalla and Yael Grauer from Consumer Reports and facilitated by Georgia Bullen from Superbloom. Attendees included approximately 25 individuals across civil society, education, government, industry, and the technical community, including Josh Aas from Internet Security Research Group and Prossimo; Jack Cable, Alex Gaynor, Joseph Lorenzo Hall from the Internet Society; Jacob Hoffman-Andrews from Electronic Frontier Foundation and Internet Security Research Group; Per Larsen from Immunant, Inc.; Bob Lord from CISA; Art Manion, Eric Mill, and Conrad Stosz from Office of Management and Budget; Harry Mourtos from Office of the National Cyber Director; Shravan Narayan from the University of Texas at Austin; Maggie Oates from Consumer Reports; Miguel Ojeda, Matthew Riley from Google; Christine Runnegar from the Internet Society; Deian Stefan from the University of California, San Diego: Ben L. Titzer from Carnegie Mellon University; and Zachary Weinberg from CMU.
The event gave participants the opportunity to share resources related to memory safety, discuss opportunities and barriers in the security ecosystem, and to brainstorm potential solutions to memory access vulnerabilities that exist in products across the marketplace.
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