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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

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

September 23, 2020

Ron Ross, Victoria Yan Pillitteri and Naomi Lefkovitz

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 Privacy Controls for Information Systems and

Threat Models for Differential Privacy

September 15, 2020

Joseph Near and David Darais

This post is part of a series on differential privacy. Learn more and browse all the posts published to date on the differential privacy blog series page in NIST’s Privacy Engineering Collaboration

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Staff Spotlight: NIST Post-Quantum Cryptography

September 14, 2020

Angela Robinson

In July, NIST announced the third-round candidates for the Post Quantum Cryptography (PQC) Standardization Project, intended to determine the best algorithms to help form the first post-quantum

Building the Federal Profile for IoT Device Cybersecurity | Post-Workshop Update

August 21, 2020

Katerina Megas

Thanks to everyone who attended our July 22-23 workshop, Building the Federal Profile for IoT Device Cybersecurity: Next Steps for Securing Federal Systems. And, of course, a special “thank you” to

HELP WANTED: Growing a Workforce for Managing Privacy Risk

August 20, 2020

Naomi Lefkovitz and Dylan Gilbert

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 demonstrated that the need for effective privacy