Collaboration software used by federal government agencies — this includes apps from Microsoft, Zoom, Slack, and Google — will be required to work together and be securely end-to-end encrypted, if legislation proposed by US Senator Ron Wyden passes.
Specifically, it would require the US government's General Services Administration to create a list of collaboration technology features used by the federal government. Then the National Institute of Standards and Technology would need to identify a set of interoperable standards and requirements for each of these.
Four years after NIST selects the standards, all collaboration technology purchased by the federal government would be required to communicate using the identified standards, thus ensuring they are interoperable with other products used by federal agencies. "My bill will secure the US government's communications from foreign hackers, while protecting taxpayer wallets. Vendor lock-in, bundling, and other anticompetitive practices result in the government spending vast sums of money on insecure software," Wyden said in a
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