Waiting for the SBOM to Drop, with Allan Friedman

Allan Friedman was one of the first, if not THE first person to talk with me about the need for a mandatory software bill of materials to be attached to all software back in 2017 when he was Director of Cybersecurity Initiatives for the US Department of National Telecommunications and Information Administration (NTIA).

In today’s show we’ll do a deep dive with Allan, tracing his path from doing economic research at Harvard in the early 2000s, to becoming the country’s most recognized advocate on SBOM legislation as the current Senior Advisor and Strategist for the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency of the United States Government.