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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Small Businesses Are a Big Priority for NIST

May 7, 2020

Marian Merritt

In my spare time, I have been casually researching my family genealogy, and like many of us, I’ve discovered I come from a long line of small business owners: dry goods sales, pharmacists, building

How Many Engineers Does It Take to Digitally Secure a Solar Panel?

May 4, 2020

Eileen Division

The headline for this blog post is not a trick question or the beginning of a bad joke. I asked this question — maybe a bit facetiously — when I met the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

Director's Corner Series with Jeff Greene

April 27, 2020

Jeff Greene

Welcome back to the Director’s Corner! This blog series was created to provide readers with special insight into the cybersecurity work we are very proud to have completed and plan to accomplish in

Continuing to Strengthen International Connections on the Cybersecurity Framework

April 21, 2020

Amy Mahn

In these uncertain times, our most important focus is on health and safety. Like so many of you, most of us at NIST are working remotely. But we are still working hard to support our cybersecurity

Staff Spotlight: NIST Usable Cybersecurity

April 1, 2020

Kristen Greene

Every day, staff in the NIST Information Technology Laboratory’s Visualization and Usability Group (VUG) are conducting studies and publishing findings about cybersecurity usability. A usable