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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Selecting Security and Privacy Controls: Choosing the Right Approach

October 1, 2020

Ron Ross, Victoria Yan Pillitteri and Naomi Lefkovitz

Recently, NIST published a significant update to its flagship security and privacy controls catalog, Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5. This update created a set of next generation controls to

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NIST Celebrates October as Cybersecurity Awareness Month

September 30, 2020

Kristina Rigopoulos

NIST is once again proud to be celebrating Cybersecurity Awareness Month this October! As this year has been one of the more challenging in memory, it is imperative that we continue to remember the

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