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Taking Measure

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Timothy Zimmerman

Tim is a computer engineer with the NIST Intelligent Systems Division. His research focuses on cybersecurity for the manufacturing sector, especially its impact on industrial control systems and robotics. In his spare time, Tim likes to design and build his own fighting robots and battle other robots with them at competitions throughout the U.S.

Timothy Zimmerman checking connections in the Cybersecurity for Smart Manufacturing Systems testbed

Ensuring the Cybersecurity of Manufacturing Systems

October 6, 2017

Cybersecurity, at this point in the technological age, has become a household word. Every week, almost like clockwork, it seems there is a story on the news

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