• Assistant Director

Sara Ann Brackett

Sara Ann Brackett is an Assistant Director with the Cyber Statecraft Initiative, part of the the Atlantic Council Tech Programs. 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 graduated from Duke University, where she majored in Computer Science and Public Policy and wrote a thesis on the effects of market concentration on cybersecurity. She participated in the Duke Tech Policy Lab’s Platform Accountability Project and worked with the Duke Cybersecurity Leadership Program as part of Professor David Hoffman’s research team.

September 2023

Software Supply Chain Security: The Dataset

by Will Loomis, Stewart Scott, Trey Herr, Sara Ann Brackett, Nancy Messieh, and June Lee

Want to dive deeper into the Breaking Trust database? You have come to the right place.
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July 2023

Why Do SBOM Haters Hate? Or Why Trade Associations Say the Darndest Things

by John Speed Meyers, Sara Ann Brackett, and Trey Herr

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. 
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July 2023

The National Cybersecurity Strategy Implementation Plan: A CSI Markup

by Trey Herr, Stewart Scott, Maia Hamin, Will Loomis, Sara Ann Brackett, Jennifer Lin

On July 13, the White House released the Implementation Plan for the 2023 US National Cybersecurity Strategy. Read along with CSI staff, fellows, and experts for commentary and what the NCSIP means for the Strategy.
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