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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Celebrating 50 years of Cybersecurity at NIST

The Cornerstone of Cybersecurity – Cryptographic Standards and a 50-Year Evolution

May 26, 2022

Lily Chen and Matthew Scholl

In today’s connected digital world, cryptographic algorithms are implemented in every device and applied to every link to protect information in transmission and in storage. Over the past 50 years

Cybersecurity for IoT: The Road We’ve Traveled, The Road Ahead

May 16, 2022

Michael Fagan

The NIST Cybersecurity for IoT program published Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks ( NISTIR 8228 ) in June 2019, nearly 3 years ago. Since then, IoT

The Application of Cybersecurity for IoT Capabilities to Real-World Scenarios

April 25, 2022

Jeff Marron

NIST has a history of collaboration between its programs, which helps maximize project impacts and practicality to industry. One great example is between NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of

A Peek at Privacy: Where We Started, Where We are Now, and What’s Next

April 6, 2022

Meghan Anderson

As part of NIST’s 50 th anniversary of cybersecurity, this month’s blog post is centered on privacy at NIST. Since many of you have become familiar with the Privacy Engineering Program’s popular Venn

NIST Seeks Input on International Aspects of the Cybersecurity Framework, Other Resources

April 4, 2022

Amy Mahn

Addressing global needs is a critical part of NIST’s work in the evolution of the Cybersecurity Framework, especially as we continue to see international adaptions and use cases to address emerging