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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Cybersecurity Insights Blog: Year-In-Review 2020

December 18, 2020

Kristina Rigopoulos

We can all agree that 2020 has been a year we won’t forget anytime soon. Faced with unanticipated challenges, new concerns, and constant adjustments forced by the global pandemic, we were compelled to

Summation and Average Queries: Detecting Trends in Your Data

December 17, 2020

David Darais and Joseph Near

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

Rounding Up Your IoT Security Requirements: Draft NIST Guidance for Federal Agencies

December 15, 2020

Katerina Megas

IoT devices are becoming integral elements of federal information systems, which is why NIST has released for public review draft guidance on defining federal IoT cybersecurity requirements, including

Back to the Basics: Announcing the New NICE Framework

November 16, 2020

Danielle Santos

Three years ago, NIST published the first version of Special Publication (SP) 800-181, the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework. Since then

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Cybersecurity Awareness Month: If You Connect IT, Protect IT.

October 30, 2020

Katerina Megas

This week’s blog post highlighting Cybersecurity Awareness Month is from NIST’s Katerina Megas, program manager, Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) program. In this post, Ms. Megas