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A new Web site launched by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) can help federal information systems managers maintain the security of
Establishing trust in Internet transactions is a mutual process between user and service provider. In bank transactions, for example, customers want to be sure
The Argonne National Laboratory of the Department of Energy (DoE) announced on Jan. 17, 2008, that a team of researchers at the National Institute of Standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in conjunction with the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS), is sponsoring a one-day
A team of computer scientists and mathematicians from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the University of Texas, Arlington is
As this year's holiday season approaches, your credit card transactions may be a little more secure thanks to standards adopted by the payment card industry
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a competition to develop a new cryptographic "hash" algorithm, a tool that converts a file
Widely recognized as the engine that drives the U.S. economy, information technology enables the vast majority of organizations to carry out their missions and
A recently completed licensing agreement for two novel National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) technologies may help bring affordable graphic
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released a new publication that provides detailed tips on how to make web servers more resistant
Recommendations for a new set of requirements intended to make future voting systems more "secure, reliable, and easier for all voters to use" have been
Many Web-based services, from shopping to online word processing, allow computer programs to talk to each other and exchange user data across several Web sites
In preparation for the September 2 international voting deadline, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has supported
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an improved version of its Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Data Generator, a
Factories have much to gain from wireless technology, such as robot control, RFID tag monitoring, and local-area network (LAN) communications. Wireless systems
"America's Most Wanted" meets Web 2.0 as researchers develop an additional implementation of a data format that allows disparate law enforcement agencies to
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is making available "virtual machine images" of secure configurations of the Microsoft Windows XP and
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released three draft Special Publications (SP) documents for public comment. Revision 1, Wireless
Electricity, power, water, communications, waste treatment—we call the facilities that supply these services our "critical" infrastructures because they truly
Providing strong security for complex federal information systems is a challenging job. But now there's a new version of a draft guide for assessing the
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a prototype high-speed quantum key distribution (QKD) system, based on a new
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking participants for its upcoming Text Retrieval Conference—TREC 2007. Since 1992, TREC has
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a revised version of Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems (NIST