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National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)

A collaborative hub where industry organizations, government agencies, and academic institutions work together to address businesses’ most pressing cybersecurity challenges.

 This public-private partnership enables the creation of practical cybersecurity solutions for specific industries or broad, cross-sector technology challenges. Working with technology partners—from Fortune 50 market leaders to smaller companies specializing in IT security— the NCCoE develops modular, easily adaptable example cybersecurity solutions demonstrating how to apply standards and best practices using commercially available technology. The NCCoE documents these example solutions in the NIST Special Publication 1800 series, which maps capabilities to the NIST Cyber Security Framework and details the steps needed for another entity to recreate the example solution. The NCCoE was established in 2012 by NIST in partnership with the State of Maryland and Montgomery County, Md.

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Trustworthy Networks Program

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The need for Trustworthy Networking Internet Society Report on the Future of the Internet “Perhaps the most pressing danger to the future of the Internet is the rising scope and breadth of Cyber Threats.” “Addressing cyber threats should be the priority” “The scale of cyberattacks is steadily

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Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture: High-Level Document

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Alper Kerman, Oliver Borchert, Gema Howell, Scott Rose, Murugiah Souppaya, Jason Ajmo, Yemi Fashina, Parisa Grayeli, Joseph Hunt, Jason Hurlburt, Nedu Irrechukwu, Joshua Klosterman, Oksana Slivina, Susan Symington, Allen Tan, Karen Scarfone, William Barker, Peter Gallagher, Aaron Palermo, Madhu Balaji, Adam Cerini, Rajarshi Das, Jacob Barosin, Kyle Black, Scott Gordon, Jerry Haskins, Keith Luck, Dale McKay, Sunjeet Randhawa, Brian Butler, Mike Delaguardia, Matthew Hyatt, Randy Martin, Peter Romness, Corey Bonnell, Dean Coclin, Ryan Johnson, Dung Lam, Darwin Tolbert, Tim Jones, Tom May, Christopher Altman, Alex Bauer, Marco Genovese, Andrew Campagna, John Dombroski, Adam Frank, Nalini Kannan, Priti Patil, Harmeet Singh, Mike Spisak, Krishna Yellepeddy, Nicholas Herrmann, Corey Lund, Farhan Saifudin, Madhu Dodda, Tim LeMaster, Ken Durbin, James Elliott, Earl Matthews, David Pricer, Joey Cruz, Tarek Dawoud, Carmichael Patton, Alex Pavlovsky, Brandon Stephenson, Clay Taylor, Bob Lyons, Vinu Panicker, Peter Bjork, Hans Drolshagen, Imran Bashir, Ali Haider, Nishit Kothari, Sean Morgan, Seetal Patel, Norman Wong, Zack Austin, Shawn Higgins, Rob Woodworth, Mitchell Lewars, Bryan Rosensteel, Don Coltrain, Wade Ellery, Deborah McGinn, Frank Briguglio, Ryan Tighe, Chris Jensen, Joshua Moll, Jason White, Joe Brown, Gary Bradt, Jeffrey Adorno, Syed Ali, Bob Smith
A zero trust architecture (ZTA) enables secure authorized access to enterprise resources that are distributed across on-premises and multiple cloud environments

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