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Cybersecurity Insights

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REGISTER NOW: Privacy Controls Workshop on next steps for NIST SP 800-53, Appendix J!

August 17, 2016

We’re pleased to announce that on September 8, 2016, NIST and the Department of Transportation will hold a technical workshop on the next steps for NIST Special Publication 800-53, Appendix J…and

The Attribute Metadata NISTIR “implementers’ draft” is now ready for public comment!

August 1, 2016

Following the “Applying Measurement Science in the Identity Ecosystem” workshop, we heard that attendees wanted a more complete treatment of attribute metadata. So we took the attribute metadata

Coffee Chat with Michael Kaiser, Executive Director, National Cyber Security Alliance

June 23, 2016

Michael Kaiser

To get to the core of multi-factor authentication (MFA) and why it’s such an important security feature, we caught up with Michael Kaiser, the Executive Director of the National Cyber Security

Summer homework: NIST welcomes comments until 7/31 on draft privacy risk management framework

May 29, 2015

Naomi Lefkovitz

Earlier today, the privacy engineering team at NIST released its draft NIST Internal Report 8062, Privacy Risk Management for Federal Information Systems, and is seeking comments on that draft. This

As NSTIC Turns 4…

March 30, 2015

Jeremy Grant

Next month, the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace will celebrate its fourth “NSTICiversary” – marking four years since President Obama called for industry, advocates, agencies