The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF

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The Feds Push for WebAssembly Security Over eBPF

The use of WebAssembly could become mandatory to meet security-compliance requirements while solving other ongoing security conundrums as Wasm becomes more widely adopted. According to a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) paper, “A Data Protection Approach for Cloud-Native Applications”  (authors: Wesley Hales from LeakSignal; Ramaswamy Chandramouli, a supervisory computer scientist at NIST), WebAssembly could and should be in…