On December 21st, the U.S. White House issued Executive Order (EO) 14028, "Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity," which emphasized modernizing cybersecurity infrastructure by coding in more secure ways.
A more detailed excerpt from the Executive Order stated; "Software engineers, developers, and coders must build secure code and security controls into the code they create. They need to make security by design and security by default software-design requirements."