BlackBerry Jarvis becomes one of the first software
composition analysis tools to provide turnkey cybersecurity
assurance in compliance with President Biden's Cybersecurity
Executive Order
LAS VEGAS, Jan. 5, 2022 /CNW/ -- BlackBerry Limited
(NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) today introduced a new feature of BlackBerry®
Jarvis®, the company's software composition analysis tool,
that enables those doing business with the U.S. Federal Government
to comply with the recent software bill of materials (SBOM)
requirement from President Biden's Executive Order on
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity.
Executive Order 14028 requires any vendor, supplier, or provider
of technology solutions to the U.S. government to provide a full
SBOM and demonstrate other cybersecurity management measures to
ensure that any security vulnerabilities in the software supply
chain of the nation's critical infrastructure are identified and
remediated immediately.
In response to the new standard, BlackBerry QNX has added a
specific capability to BlackBerry Jarvis that enables users to
efficiently generate a comprehensive SBOM report that follows the
Software Package Data Exchange (SPDX®) report standard, one of the
leading standards to support the U.S. government and other
regulatory bodies. Available in early 2022, BlackBerry Jarvis will
become one of the first software composition analysis tools to
provide this key feature to embedded software developers whose
products are used by the Federal Government. This will empower
these developers to keep software secure from all known issues
based on the speedy and actionable intelligence provided by the
tool.
"As multiple government and vertical-specific safety and
security standards emerge, the need to have confidence in one's
codebase has taken on a new level of importance, particularly
during a time in which multiple cybersecurity attacks have
illustrated vulnerabilities present within the digital
infrastructure of the U.S. Federal Government," said Adam Boulton, Chief Technology Officer,
BlackBerry Technology Solutions. "BlackBerry Jarvis enables
embedded software developers to demonstrate compliance, track
software quality metrics and continuously harden their system so
that it becomes more resilient to increasingly cunning attacks.
With BlackBerry Jarvis' new ability to generate an SBOM report in
the U.S. government's mandated format, it's now become an even more
invaluable tool to procurement officers tasked with managing the
nation's cybersecurity and software supply chain risk."
"BlackBerry Jarvis meets the needs of the embedded software
industry, allowing developers to gain deep visibility into the
provenance of their software while automating the key steps in the
binary scanning process in order to produce an SBOM in just
minutes," said Hiten Shah, Senior
Analyst at Frost & Sullivan. "Complying with this specific
requirement in Biden's Cybersecurity Executive Order is something
which policymakers around the globe will no doubt roll out with
ever more frequency in the face of a threat landscape that only
seems to be growing in scale and complexity. To that end,
BlackBerry Jarvis helps OEMs bring trust, transparency and above
all – peace of mind – into their software supply chains."
For more information on BlackBerry Jarvis please visit
BlackBerry.com/Jarvis.
About BlackBerry
BlackBerry (NYSE: BB; TSX: BB) provides intelligent security
software and services to enterprises and governments around the
world. The company secures more than 500M endpoints including 195M vehicles. Based in Waterloo, Ontario, the company leverages AI
and machine learning to deliver innovative solutions in the areas
of cybersecurity, safety, and data privacy solutions, and is a
leader in the areas of endpoint security, endpoint management,
encryption, and embedded systems. BlackBerry's vision is
clear - to secure a connected future you can trust.
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