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The National Institute of Standards and Technology hopes to engage a broader community of stakeholders to drive its Open Security Controls Assessment Language program forward.\nThe open source \u201cOSCAL\u201d program could be a crucial component in helping agencies speed up the adoption of digital technologies, Department of Commerce Chief Information Officer Andr\xe9 Mendes said at NIST\u2019s fourth annual OSCAL workshop on Tuesday.\n\u201cWe cannot just keep adding cybersecurity experts,\u201d Mendes said. \u201cIt doesn\u2019t work. It doesn\u2019t scale. And so cyber defenses and processes must evolve.\u201d\nOSCAL is a set of structured data formats that provide \u201cmachine-readable representations of control catalogs, control baselines, system security plans, and assessment plans and results,\u201d according to NIST. The current formats are expressed in XML, JSON, and YAML\nLearn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices