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Taking Measure

Just a Standard Blog

Ron Ross

Ron Ross is a computer scientist and Fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He specializes in cybersecurity, risk management, and systems security engineering.  Ron is a retired Army officer who, when not defending cyberspace, follows his passion for NASCAR and takes care of his adopted rescue dog, Sophie.

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Keeping the Lights On

Ron Ross
The only thing worse than a pandemic would be a pandemic without power. If the lights dim due to a disruption in power generation or distribution, our productivity and quality of life do, too. In
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Rethinking Cybersecurity from the Inside Out

Ron Ross
After four years of research and development, NIST has published a groundbreaking new security guideline that addresses the longstanding problem of how to engineer trustworthy, secure systems—systems