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BlackBerry has announced a range of new partnerships and updates to some of its software offerings as it once again looks to remind people it isn’t a smartphone company any more.
Nowhere is this perhaps more obvious than in the new feature of its BlackBerry Jarvis software composition analysis tool. This will now allow those doing business with the US 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”.
The Biden administration has been toughening up its cybersecurity policies following last year’s SolarWinds attacks, with Executive Order 14028 requiring anyone doing business with the US government to provide a full SBOM and also showing it can quickly spot and patch any security issues.
Available within the next few weeks, the feature will be on offer to any embedded software developers whose products are used by the Federal Government, with BlackBerry saying it will help developers keep…
