The White House Software Security Summit was held at the White House on Jan. 13. Summit aimed to find ways of “preventing security defects” and “shortening the response time for distributing and implementing fixes” The summit took place as companies struggle to find and patch a significant vulnerability in the Log4j logging framework for Java applications, which is widely used in enterprise applications. The issue will likely take years to remediate because of its ubiquity because of the issue’s ubiquity.”]