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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is now accepting proposals for its 2018 Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) awards. The
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
The Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICS WG), which was established in December 2015 by the National Security Council's
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
Researchers who work with stem cells have ambitious goals. Some want to cure cancer or treat heart disease. Others want to grow the tissues and organs that
NIST publishes Attribute Metadata: A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST Internal Report 8112), which contains an attribute that can be
Donna Dodson, NIST’s Chief Cybersecurity Advisor and NIST Fellow; Josh Franklin, IT Security Engineer in ITL’s Applied Cybersecurity Division; and Naomi
The cybersecurity field is suffering from a severe shortage in talent, with an estimated 285,681 job openings today according to CyberSeek – an interactive
The Winter 2018 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the
NIST publishes Security Considerations for Code Signing , a White Paper that describes features and architectural relationships of typical code-signing
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that “learns” like a biological system and could
Beguiling, baffling or both—that’s blockchain. Aiming to clarify the subject for the benefit of companies and other organizations, the National Institute of
NIST released Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers (NIST SP 800-125A), a report that provides recommendations on ensuring the secure
In the race to build a computer that mimics the massive computational power of the human brain, researchers are increasingly turning to memristors, which can
NIST releases DRAFT NISTIR 7511, Revision 5: Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.3 Validation Program Test Requirements. The National
ITL’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence releases a draft project description, Energy Sector Asset Management , to enhance the energy sector’s asset
ITL’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence releases Domain Name System-Based Electronic Mail Security (NIST SP 1800-6), a guide that contains a set of
NIST releases Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations (NIST IR 8149), a report that explores the concepts around trust frameworks and
NIST releases Attribute Metadata – A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST IR 8112), a report that contains a metadata schema for attributes
The National Science Foundation (NSF) has introduced for the first time, the CyberCorps: Scholarship for Service (SFS) Hall of Fame. The SFS Hall of Fame
NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation. This Recommendation specifies
WASHINGTON – Today, the U.S. Department of Commerce and the U.S. Department of Homeland Security released a draft report to President Trump in response to the
NIST Special Publication 800-160, Systems Security Engineering — Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure
NIST posted Round 1 of comments on the Post-Quantum Cryptography Standardization process. The 69 submissions are candidate quantum-resistant cryptographic
NIST releases Guide to LTE Security (NIST SP 800-187) , a report that provides information to organizations about the security capabilities of cellular networks