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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Celebrating 50 years of Cybersecurity at NIST

Cybersecurity Education and Workforce Development: Employer-Driven and Learner-Centered

March 23, 2022

Rodney Petersen

In this installment of our 50th Anniversary of Cybersecurity series, we hear from NIST’s Rodney Petersen, Director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE). In this look back

Celebrating 50 Years of Cybersecurity at NIST!

March 7, 2022

Kevin Stine

With each day bringing new cybersecurity challenges and advances, it is easy to understand why people feel like it’s hard to keep up. It is important to be agile and move quickly to avoid the

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Our Quest: Advancing Product Labels to Help Consumers Consider Cybersecurity

February 16, 2022

Katerina Megas and Michael Ogata

For many decades, consumers have relied on labels to help them make decisions about which products to buy. Sometimes the labels make assertions about what ingredients or components the product uses. (

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

January 28, 2022

Naomi Lefkovitz

Today’s blog celebrates Data Privacy Week, an international awareness initiative led by the National Cyber Security Alliance to help spread awareness about online privacy. NIST is very proud to

Differential Privacy: Future Work & Open Challenges

January 24, 2022

Joseph Near and David Darais

In this series of blog posts, we have tried to give an accessible overview of the state-of-the-art in differential privacy. In this final post, we review some of the open challenges in the practical