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NIST has updated the federal agency organizational codes specified in Special Publication (SP) 800-87, Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally...
Cryptography experts at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) are kicking off an effort to protect the data created by innumerable tiny...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released version 1.1 of its popular Framework for...
NIST has updated two publications on cryptographic key-establishment schemes—procedures that result in secret keying material being shared among different...
ITL’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence released a draft of NIST Special Publication 1800-13, Mobile Application Single Sign-On: Improving...
Virtualized server platforms—like physical server platforms—need to be protected against attacks from hackers who might want to steal information or take...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a method for generating numbers guaranteed to be random by quantum...
The NICE Program Office will be participating in the RSA Conference April 16-20, 2018 in San Francisco, California. See below for ways you can connect with us...
NIST releases a publication that will help organizations to identify those systems and components that are most vital and which may need additional security or...
The Spring 2018 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...
GAITHERSBURG, Md.—The U.S. Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has announced a cooperative agreement with Florida...
The United States Office of Personnel Management (OPM) has issued a Memo to provide guidance that will help Federal departments and agencies pinpoint their...
NICE has launched the Apprenticeship Subgroup, a new public working group within the charter of the NICE Working Group. Girish Seshagiri and Jennifer Carlson...
The United States continues to have complete dependence on information technology deployed in critical infrastructure systems and applications in both the...
Congratulations to Mr. Michael Petock, U.S. Department of State, for being awarded the Federal Information Systems Security Educator’s Association (FISSEA)...
In celebration of Women’s History Month, the Federal CIO Council Workforce Committee is pleased to host its first-ever Women in Federal IT and Cybersecurity...
The National CyberWatch Center has recently updated their Guide for Mapping Courses to Knowledge Units. The guide, now in version 2, provides detailed...
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...
NIST publishes Attribute Metadata: A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST Internal Report 8112), which contains an attribute that can be...
The Winter 2018 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...
The cybersecurity field is suffering from a severe shortage in talent, with an estimated 285,681 job openings today according to CyberSeek – an interactive...
Beguiling, baffling or both—that’s blockchain. Aiming to clarify the subject for the benefit of companies and other organizations, the National Institute of...