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NIST released a draft revision of Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 2, Recommendation for Key Management, Part 2: Best Practices for Key Management...
The United States continues to have complete dependence on information technology deployed in critical infrastructure systems and applications in both the...
NIST released Special Publication 500-325, Fog Computing Conceptual Model, a report that presents the conceptual models of fog and mist computing and how they...
NIST released, for public comment, the final draft of Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (NIST SP 800-171A), a publication...
NIST releases National Checklist Program for IT Products – Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers (NIST SP 800-70 Revision 4), a report that explains how...
NIST publishes The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) (NIST SP 800-126 Rev. 3) and an annex to this publication, SCAP 1...
Beguiling, baffling or both—that’s blockchain. Aiming to clarify the subject for the benefit of companies and other organizations, the National Institute of...
It’s crunch time for government contractors. They only have until Dec. 31, 2017, to demonstrate they are providing appropriate cybersecurity for a class of...
Information systems—from communications platforms to internet-connected devices—require both security and privacy safeguards to work successfully and protect...
Your business operates on a tight budget. Your sales team complains of old cell phones with inadequate data plans; your desktop computers are no longer...
“ Defense ! Defense ! ” may be the rallying cry from cybersecurity teams working to thwart cybersecurity attacks, but perhaps they should be shouting “Recover...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is officially asking the public for help heading off a looming threat to information security: quantum...
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Willie E. May has appointed Patricia...
A new publication from the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) provides a basic model aimed at helping researchers better understand the...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is developing a minor update of its Cybersecurity Framework based on feedback from its users. In the...
We are immersed in a cyber-physical world. Information technology is deeply embedded in traditionally non-IT systems, including automobiles, the electric grid...
Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Director Willie E. May today announced the...
If an exotic quantum computer is invented that could break the codes we depend on to protect confidential electronic information, what will we do to maintain...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the final version of a document outlining its process for developing cryptographic...
For many years, when you swiped your credit card, your number would be stored on the card reader, making encryption difficult to implement. Now, after nearly a...
As the number of employees who telework trends upward—and new kinds of devices are used in telework—the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comment on its latest draft of a publication intended to help computer security...
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has published a guide to deploying automated application whitelisting to help thwart malicious...
October is yielding a bumper crop of honors for National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Fellow Ron Ross. Considered the father of the Federal...