Will CISA's Secure by Design pledge be a catalyst for better software security?

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) took advantage of the RSA Conference this year to boost its efforts to get wider adoption of Secure by Design practices for increasing software security. At the event, the CISA announced that 68 software makers — including Akamai, Amazon Web Services, Cisco, Google, HP, IBM, Lenovo, and Microsoft — had pledged to build greater security into their products over the coming year.