Sara Ann Brackett
Sara Ann Brackett is a research associate at the Atlantic Council’s Cyber Statecraft Initiative under the Digital Forensic Research Lab (DFRLab). She focuses her work on open-source software security (OSS), software bills of materials (SBOMs), software liability, and software supply-chain risk management within the Initiative’s Systems Security portfolio.
Brackett is currently an undergraduate at Duke University, where she majors in Computer Science and Public Policy and is currently writing a thesis on the effects of market concentration on cybersecurity. She participates in the Duke Tech Policy Lab’s Platform Accountability Project and works with the Duke Cybersecurity Leadership Program as part of Professor David Hoffman’s research team.
September 2023
Software Supply Chain Security: The Dataset
Want to dive deeper into the Breaking Trust database? You have come to the right place.
September 2023
Kink in the Chain: Eight Perspectives on Software Supply Chain Risk Management
Software supply chain attacks are popular, impactful, and are used to great effect by malicious actors. To dive deeper on this topic, we asked eight experts about these threats and how policymakers can help protect against them.
July 2023
Why Do SBOM Haters Hate? Or Why Trade Associations Say the Darndest Things
SBOMs are an important step forward for software supply chain security, so despite pushback and opposition, industry and government should take a page out of Taylor Swift’s book and just keep cruisin’, don’t let SBOM haters get in the way.
