In an effort to improve consumers’ ability to make informed decisions about software they purchase, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has drafted a set of cybersecurity criteria for consumer software. The criteria are intended to aid in the development and voluntary use of labels to indicate that the software incorporates a baseline level of security measures.
![software-label-rev Source: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2021/11/nist-seeks-public-input-consumer-software-labeling-cybersecurity](https://csiac.org/wp-content/uploads/bb-plugin/cache/software-label-rev-1024x797-panorama-a439f842b1bebc9c2d1b12f1b5d0a511-606cdedb7e0c3.png)
Source: https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2021/11/nist-seeks-public-input-consumer-software-labeling-cybersecurity
November 16, 2021 | Originally published by NIST on November 1, 2021