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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Naomi Lefkovitz

The UK-US Blog Series on Privacy-Preserving Federated Learning: Introduction

December 7, 2023

This post is the first in a series on privacy-preserving federated learning. The series is a collaboration between CDEI and NIST. Advances in machine learning

Help Celebrate Data Privacy Week & NIST Privacy Framework’s 2nd Birthday!

January 28, 2022

Today’s blog celebrates Data Privacy Week, an international awareness initiative led by the National Cyber Security Alliance to help spread awareness about

Happy First Birthday, NIST Privacy Framework!

January 14, 2021

G rab a cupcake or several—no judgment—and join us in celebrating the first birthday of the NIST Privacy Framework! Here at NIST, we feel like proud parents

Selecting Security and Privacy Controls: Choosing the Right Approach

October 1, 2020

Recently, NIST published a significant update to its flagship security and privacy controls catalog, Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5 . This update

The Next Generation Security and Privacy Controls—Protecting the Nation’s Critical Assets

September 23, 2020

It has been seven years since the last major update to NIST’s flagship security and privacy guidance document Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Security and

HELP WANTED: Growing a Workforce for Managing Privacy Risk

August 20, 2020

It’s a very different world that we’re living in from the one in which we published the NIST Privacy Framework this past January. These changes have

Welcome to the World, NIST Privacy Framework 1.0!

January 28, 2020

As we celebrate Data Privacy Day 2020, let’s take a moment to reflect on the changes to privacy as a discipline — not just here at NIST, but as a community. A

The Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework is Here!

September 9, 2019

Privacy and NIST are in the headlines today and in good way! We are delighted to announce the release of the Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework: A

REGISTER NOW - Privacy Risk Assessment: Prerequisite for Privacy Risk Management Workshop

May 10, 2017

We are pleased to announce the next workshop in NIST's ongoing series on privacy engineering and risk management - Privacy Risk Assessment: A Prerequisite for

Making Privacy Concrete (Three Words Not Usually Found Together)

January 4, 2017

Most in the IT space won’t know this, but NIST has one of the world’s best concrete engineering programs. Maybe we just have concrete on the mind since a couple