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Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services: Draft NISTIR 8323 Available for Comment

October 22, 2020

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8323, Cybersecurity Profile for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services, for public review and...

An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction: NIST Technical Note 2111

October 22, 2020

Today, NIST is publishing NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction. In the era of the Internet of Things...

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Natural Disaster Preparations May Aid Businesses’ Pandemic Response

October 19, 2020

The social and economic impacts of COVID-19 have battered small and medium-sized enterprises, putting millions of jobs in the U.S. at risk. And a year rife with...

A novel, low-cost method detects nanoscale contaminants during manufacture of semiconductor devices

October 19, 2020

As computer chips and other electronic devices continue to shrink in size, they become ever more sensitive to contamination. However, detecting the nanoscale...

A woman (Callie Higgins) stands in front of a piece of photopolymerization equipment.

Spotlight: Callie Higgins Solidifies Her Place in the World of Photopolymerization

October 18, 2020

NIST’s Callie Higgins has found a place for herself in an emerging and largely mysterious field within manufacturing. As a special branch of additive...

Spotlight: The Scope of Yamali Hernandez's Impact at NCNR and NIST

October 13, 2020

Know much about neutrons? The NIST Center for Neutron Research (NCNR) uses the tiny but highly penetrating particles to make all sorts of measurements...

What Laser Color Do You Like?

October 13, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Maryland have developed a microchip technology that can convert...

A Billion Tiny Pendulums Could Detect the Universe’s Missing Mass

October 13, 2020

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and their colleagues have proposed a novel method for finding dark matter, the cosmos’s...

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): NISTIR 8286

October 13, 2020

The increasing frequency, creativity, and variety of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure cybersecurity risk receives the appropriate...

Upcoming NIST Publications on Cybersecurity for Public Safety

October 12, 2020

In this digital age, connecting to the Internet can leave us at risk of having personal information stolen. As public safety agencies evolve and adopt new...

Thermal MagIC: New NIST Project to Build Nano-Thermometers Could Revolutionize Temperature Imaging

October 9, 2020

Cheaper refrigerators? Stronger hip implants? A better understanding of human disease? All of these could be possible and more, someday, thanks to an ambitious...

NIST Cybersecurity Expert Donna Dodson Receives Service to America Medal

October 8, 2020

Donna Dodson, a cybersecurity expert who worked for her entire 33-year career at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), has been honored...

Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1 Manufacturing Profile: NISTIR 8183 Revision 1

October 7, 2020

NIST announces the publication of NISTIR 8183 Revision 1, Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1 Manufacturing Profile. This revision of the CSF Manufacturing...

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NIST Innovation Could Improve Detection of COVID-19 Infections

October 5, 2020

A multidisciplinary research team at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has developed a way to increase the sensitivity of the primary...

NIST Launches an Updated Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science

October 1, 2020

The Organization of Scientific Area Committees ( OSAC) for Forensic Science has updated its structure and improved several processes. These changes will enable...

NIST Crowdsourcing Challenge to De-Identify Public Safety Data Sets

October 1, 2020

BOULDER, Colo. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a crowdsourcing challenge to spur new...

ISCMA: An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment -- Draft NISTIR 8212 Available for Comment

October 1, 2020

Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8212, ISCMA: An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment, provides an operational approach to the...

Securing Data Integrity Against Ransomware Attacks: Draft Paper Available for Comment

October 1, 2020

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST is actively engaged in helping organizations address the challenge of ransomware and other data...

Blockchain Networks: Token Design and Management Overview – Draft NISTIR 8301 Available for Comment

September 29, 2020

Traditional data and operations management across organizations and on the web can involve inefficient transaction reconciliation between siloed databases...

Registration now OPEN for the Virtual NICE Conference Series!

September 28, 2020

2020 NICE Conference & Expo REGISTRATION NOW OPEN WEEKLY CONFERENCE SUB-THEMES Growing & Sustaining the NICE Community Tuesday, October 27 | 1 - 5:15 PM EDT The...

Draft Security Guidance for First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices

September 28, 2020

Public safety officials utilizing the forthcoming public safety broadband networks will have access to devices, such as smartphones, tablets and wearables...

A man (Zhi Liang) wearing dark safety goggles leans over a table, working with scientific equipment.

Spotlight: Computing the Properties of a Titan Among Manufacturing Materials

September 26, 2020

Improve the material; improve life. NIST postdoctoral researcher Zhi Liang believes the development of humanity depends on the development of materials, and few...

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A Better Alternative to Phthalates?

September 25, 2020

Detergents, shampoos, soaps and other everyday items sometimes contain a group of chemicals called phthalates, which are often used to enhance products and add...

Spotlight: From the Alaskan Wilderness to the NIST State-of-the-Art Labs

September 25, 2020

Over the course of seven years, recent postdoctoral researcher Michelle Bailey went from spending summers in the Alaskan wilderness to pushing boundaries in...

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Spotlight: Stephanie Moffitt's Search for the Causes of Solar Panel Failures

September 24, 2020

Solar panels face attack on all sides, so NIST researchers are coming to their defense and studying the causes of failures. Large fields of solar panels...

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