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Get Involved in National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week

September 12, 2019

Get Involved in National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week, brought to you by the National Initiative for...

2019 NICE Conference Agenda Is Now Available

September 11, 2019

2019 NICE Conference & Expo November 18 - 20, 2019 Sheraton Phoenix Downtown, Phoenix, AZ We are excited to share with you this year's agenda! Click the image...

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NIST Requests Comments on Draft Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

Protecting our privacy while keeping the digital wheels of society turning may feel mutually exclusive at times, but a new tool from the National Institute of...

Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework

September 9, 2019

NIST seeks comments on the Preliminary Draft of the NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management (“Preliminary Draft”...

Cyber Resiliency Engineering: Final Public Draft of NIST SP 800-160 Volume 2 Available for Comment

September 4, 2019

The goal of the NIST Systems Security Engineering initiative is to address security, safety, and resiliency issues from a stakeholder requirements and...

Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) Standardization: Round 2 Candidates Announced

August 30, 2019

NIST would like to announce the 32 candidates that will be moving on to the 2nd round of the NIST LWC Standardization Process. The second-round candidates of...

Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations: NIST SP 800-52 Rev. 2

August 29, 2019

Given the nature of interconnected networks and the use of the internet to share information, the protection of sensitive data can become difficult if proper...

Register Now: The 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference

August 26, 2019

Register Now We’re thrilled to announce that Early Bird Registration pricing is now open for the 2019 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference. The...

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Plan Outlines Priorities for Federal Agency Engagement in AI Standards Development

August 12, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a plan for prioritizing federal agency...

Situational Awareness for Electric Utilities: NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-7

August 7, 2019

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published the final version of NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-7, Situational Awareness...

Security Strategies for Microservices-based Application Systems: NIST Publishes SP 800-204

August 7, 2019

Microservices architecture is increasingly being used to design, develop, and deploy large-scale application systems in both cloud-based and enterprise...

NIST Releases Draft Security Feature Recommendations for IoT Devices

August 1, 2019

Appliances from refrigerators to thermostats are now available in models that interact with a wireless network, making them easier to control with a computer or...

Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices: Draft NISTIR 8259 Available for Comment

July 31, 2019

As manufacturers create an incredible and ever-growing variety of Internet of Things (IoT) devices, they should also understand the cybersecurity risks...

Registration Open: NICE Conference and Expo November 18-20 in Phoenix, Arizona

July 30, 2019

Registration is Open! 2019 NICE Conference & Expo November 18 - 20, 2019 Sheraton Grand Phoenix | Phoenix, AZ The annual NICE Conference and Expo...

Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce: NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-17

July 30, 2019

As retailers in the United States have adopted chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN (personal identification number) point-of-sale security measures, there have...

10 NIST Researchers Receive the Presidential Early Career Award for Scientists and Engineers

July 25, 2019

WASHINGTON — Ten researchers from the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) received the Presidential Early Career...

Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation: NIST Publishes SP 800-133 Revision 1

July 23, 2019

Cryptography relies upon two basic components—an algorithm and a cryptographic key—to protect data in an information technology security environment. Such data...

Draft Cybersecurity Practice Guide--Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled (COPE)

July 22, 2019

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-21, Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned...

Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Certificate Management: Public Draft of SP 1800-16 Available for Comment

July 17, 2019

This NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide— Draft SP 1800-16, Securing Web Transactions: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Certificate Management—shows large...

Draft White Paper: A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems

July 9, 2019

Traditional identity management has typically involved the storing of user credentials (e.g., passwords) by organizations and third parties, which often results...

Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government—Cryptographic Mechanisms: NIST Releases Draft NIST SP 800-175B Rev. 1

July 3, 2019

Network and data security are essential in today's environment of increasingly open and interconnected systems, networks, and mobile devices. Critical security...

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