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GAITHERSBURG, Md. — Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the White House Office of Science and...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched the application process for $50 million in...
Eighteen senior leaders recently joined more than 100 other executives as graduates of the Baldrige Executive Fellows Program. During the year-long leadership...
Dr. David Yashar was always interested in finding ways to use practical application of science to improve real systems, so he studied mechanical engineering at...
Notice of Funding Opportunity NIST is pleased to announce funding on behalf of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) for the NICE K12...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is requesting feedback on a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, Methodology for Characterizing Network...
NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-210, General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems, which presents an initial step toward...
6th Annual NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference Call for Presentations: Open April 1 – June 30, 2020 The 2020 NICE K12 Cybersecurity Education Conference...
Network and data security are essential in today's environment of increasingly open and interconnected systems, networks, and mobile devices. Critical security...
GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has opened a funding opportunity for rapid, high...
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If first responders knew what the inside of a building looked like before arriving at an emergency, they could save time, property and lives. Here at NIST...
Ten years ago, based on an idea on how to better engage U.S. executives, a program was created to inspire senior leaders to embrace a systems perspective in...
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11th ANNUAL NICE CONFERENCE AND EXPO Call for Presentations: Open March 24 – May 31, 2020 The 2020 NICE Conference program committee is seeking timely, topical...
Preparing a community’s buildings and infrastructure for a hurricane or earthquake can be an incredibly complicated and costly endeavor. A new online tool from...
Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported...
NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-56C Revision 2 , Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes, which...
Today mobile devices are ubiquitous, and they are often used to access enterprise networks and systems to process sensitive data. Draft NIST Special Publication...
NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-56C Revision 2 , Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes, which...
In support of guidance on the COVID-19 outbreak from Federal, State and local health authorities and the Office of Management and Budget, NIST is now operating...
The NIST Community Resilience Program was invited by the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Center for Global Sustainability to support an initiative to aid local...
NIST Special Publications (SP) 800-140 and -140A through -140F are now available. With the completion of these documents, the Cryptographic Module Validation...
Today, NIST has published NISTIR 8170 , Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework. It provides guidance on how the Framework for...
As millions of Americans transition from an office environment to their homes to continue to work, maintaining cybersecurity while teleworking is imperative...