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NIST and the Internet Keep Safe Coalition Join Forces on K12 Cybersecurity Education

September 16, 2020

The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have announced a new cooperative agreement with the Internet Keep Safe...

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Spotlight: The Challenges of Contactless Fingerprinting

September 16, 2020

Fingerprints are a great means for proving you are (or are not) who you say you are, and we’ve spent the past 2,200 years making progressively greater use of...

Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled (COPE)--NIST Publishes SP 1800-21

September 15, 2020

Today, NIST is publishing a new NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide-- Special Publication (SP) 1800-21, Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled...

Securing Property Management Systems: Draft SP 1800-27 Available for Comment

September 14, 2020

Hotels have become targets for malicious actors wishing to exfiltrate sensitive data, deliver malware, or profit from undetected fraud. Property management...

Guide to Enterprise Telework Security: Pre-Draft Call for Comments Available on Special Publication 800-46 Rev. 2

September 10, 2020

NIST requests review and comments on Special Publication (SP) 800-46 Revision 2, Guide to Enterprise Telework, Remote Access, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)...

Improving Enterprise Patching for General IT Systems: Preliminary Draft of SP 1800-31A Available for Comment

September 10, 2020

Volume A of the preliminary draft practice guide, Improving Enterprise Patching for General IT Systems, is available for public comment. The National...

Draft White Paper: Trusted Internet of Things (IoT) Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management

September 8, 2020

A Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, Trusted Internet of Things (IoT) Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management, is now available for public...

2020 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference: Registration Open

September 1, 2020

2020 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference Early Bird Registration is NOW OPEN. The 2020 NICE K12 VIRTUAL Cybersecurity Education Conference takes place...

NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges: NISTIR 8006 Now Available

August 25, 2020

NIST announces the final publication of NISTIR 8006, NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges, which defines and discusses a set of challenges related...

Impact Analysis Tool for Independent Cyber Supply Chain Risks: NISTIR 8272 Now Available

August 25, 2020

NIST announces the publication of NISTIR 8272, Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks. This document describes a tool developed to...

NIST Publishes 2019 NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program Annual Report

August 24, 2020

Just released is NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-211, 2019 NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program Annual Report, which details the NIST Information Technology...

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Exoskeleton Research Marches Forward With NIST Study on Fit

August 20, 2020

A shoddily tailored suit or a shrunken T-shirt may not be the most stylish, but wearing them is unlikely to hurt more than your reputation. An ill-fitting...

Making the DNA Melt Curve More Accurate

August 18, 2020

DNA is not only the blueprint of life; it has become the backbone for making tiny structures that can be inserted into the human body to diagnose and treat...

NIST Asks A.I. to Explain Itself

August 18, 2020

It’s a question that many of us encounter in childhood: “ Why did you do that?” As artificial intelligence (AI) begins making more consequential decisions that...

National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week: Call for Commitments

August 11, 2020

We invite you to join us in observing National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week November 9-14, 2020 2020 Call for Commitments - Open Now Read More The...

National Cybersecurity Online Informative References (OLIR) Program: Two Draft NISTIRs Available for Comment

August 4, 2020

Summary: NIST is seeking public comments on two draft NISTIRs for the National Cybersecurity Online Informative References (OLIR) Program. This Program is a...

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Recovering Data: NIST’s Neural Network Model Finds Small Objects in Dense Images

August 4, 2020

In efforts to automatically capture important data from scientific papers, computer scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have...

ITL Bulletin: Secure File Exchanges

August 3, 2020

Every day, in order to perform their jobs, workers exchange files over the Internet through email attachments, file sharing services, and other means. Many of...

Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations: Draft NIST SP 800-53B Available for Comment

July 31, 2020

NIST seeks feedback on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53B, Control Baselines for Information Systems and Organizations. SP 800-53B provides three...

General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems: NIST Publishes SP 800-210

July 31, 2020

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-210, General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems, which presents an initial step toward understanding...

Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB) Proof of Concept Implementation: NIST TN 2066

July 29, 2020

There is a smart grid messaging framework known as an Open Field Message Bus (OpenFMB); it describes a publish-and-subscribe model of communication for smart...

NICE Released the Summer 2020 eNewsletter

July 27, 2020

The Summer 2020 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

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NIST Launches Studies into Masks’ Effect on Face Recognition Software

July 27, 2020

Now that so many of us are covering our faces to help reduce the spread of COVID-19, how well do face recognition algorithms identify people wearing masks? The...

PQC Standardization Process: Third Round Candidate Announcement

July 22, 2020

It has been almost a year and a half since the second round of the NIST PQC Standardization Process began. After careful consideration, NIST would like to...

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NIST’s Post-Quantum Cryptography Program Enters ‘Selection Round’

July 22, 2020

The race to protect sensitive electronic information against the threat of quantum computers has entered the home stretch. After spending more than three years...

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