9th Could 2024 – Lenovo has joined different expertise {industry} leaders as one of many first firms to enroll to the voluntary ‘Safe by Design’ pledge introduced on 8th Could by the US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Safety Company (CISA). The pledge, which is presently targeted on enterprise software program services and products, on-premises software program, cloud companies, and software program as a service (SaaS), asks expertise leaders like Lenovo to make a good-faith pledge to make demonstratable and measurable progress throughout a set of seven shared focus areas. These embody progress within the following areas of multi-factor authentication (MFA), default passwords, lowering whole courses of vulnerability, safety patches, vulnerability disclosure coverage, widespread vulnerabilities and exposures (CVE), and proof of intrusions.
Commenting on Lenovo’s dedication to the pledge, Lenovo Chief Safety Officer Doug Fisher mentioned: “We commend CISA’s initiative to drive an industry-wide ‘safe by design’ pledge and welcome the chance to align our personal well-established safety by design strategy with different {industry} finest practices. It’s good for the {industry} that international expertise leaders are in a position to share finest practices, driving significant progress and accountability in safety. We’re dedicated to demonstrating our continued management and developments on this space, collaborating carefully with CISA to instill buyer confidence within the security, trustworthiness, and integrity of the expertise they depend on.”
The pledge’s focus enhances Lenovo’s best-in-class safety by design commitments and packages making certain the corporate offers safe infrastructure, services and products, provide chain, and bodily safety whereas assembly or exceeding {industry} requirements. This consists of Lenovo’s Safety Growth Lifecycle, Product Safety Incident Response Crew (PSIRT), manufacturing and international provide chain safety, privateness and information safety packages, a trusted provider program, and an intensive safety ecosystem of companions and {industry} requirements teams.
Fisher continued, “Our pledge transcends geographies and advantages all our international clients who face the identical industry-wide safety challenges US CISA seeks to handle, together with continued alignment with rising safety rules all over the world.”
Lenovo is the primary group of 68 firms committing to the ‘Safe by Design’ pledge, making it one of many few laptop computer, server, and smartphone producers dedicated to design merchandise with better safety inbuilt.
Extra data on the CISA pledge could be discovered right here.
Extra details about Lenovo’s safety commitments and packages could be discovered right here.
