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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Goals of NSTIC past, present, and future: NCSA guest blog interview

Our friends at the National Cyber Security Alliance recently caught up with Mike Garcia, acting director of the NSTIC NPO, to jumpstart their new executive Q&A blog series! This interview will give

NIST civic hacking day challenge sparks the creation of an innovative new API

Multi-factor authentication (MFA) is near and dear to our hearts at NSTIC. We understand how important it is to the security and privacy of online transactions and we get excited about any opportunity

Introducing the 3 newest members of the NSTIC pilots family!

The NSTIC pilots family is growing today with the announcement of three new pilot projects receiving NIST grants! These projects will join the ranks of the 15 active NSTIC pilots and alumni that know

Save the Date: NSTIC identity proofing, authentication, and attributes workshop - January 2016

We’re thrilled to announce that on January 12-13, 2016, the NSTIC National Program Office, with our colleagues here in NIST’s Information Technology Lab, will hold a technical workshop called

A major NSTIC milestone: IDEFv1 set for October 20th public release

When the Identity Ecosystem Steering Group (IDESG) plenary convened last week in Tampa, Florida, attendees meant business. By Friday afternoon, committees had finalized the baseline requirements and