National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) CTO Ollie Whitehouse kicked off day two of Britain’s cyber watchdog’s annual shindig, CYBERUK, with a tirade about the tech market, pulling it apart to demonstrate why he believes it’s at fault for many of the security problems the industry is facing today.
In a speech-cum-call to industry, one which echoed many of the points made by CISA director Jen Easterly at RSA last week, Whitehouse thundered: “We know how to build cyber resilient technology. If you look at CHERI, there’s a mechanism of addressing memory safety and legacy codebases through to rust and similar. We know how to do it technically.
