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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...
Donna Dodson, NIST’s Chief Cybersecurity Advisor and NIST Fellow; Josh Franklin, IT Security Engineer in ITL’s Applied Cybersecurity Division; and Naomi...
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have built a superconducting switch that “learns” like a biological system and could...
NIST publishes Security Considerations for Code Signing , a White Paper that describes features and architectural relationships of typical code-signing...
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 Domain Name System-Based Electronic Mail Security (NIST SP 1800-6), a guide that contains a set of...
ITL’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence releases a draft project description, Energy Sector Asset Management , to enhance the energy sector’s asset...
NIST releases Attribute Metadata – A Proposed Schema for Evaluating Federated Attributes (NIST IR 8112), a report that contains a metadata schema for attributes...
NIST releases Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations (NIST IR 8149), a report that explores the concepts around trust frameworks and...
NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-90B, Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation. This Recommendation specifies...
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...
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...
Future communications networks that are less vulnerable to hacking could be closer to reality with an invention that measures the properties of single-photon...
The Pew Charitable Trusts releases Improving Patient Care through Safe Health IT, a report that explains how the usability of an electronic health record...
The report provides recommendations for state-of-the art email security technologies to detect and prevent phishing and other malicious email messages.
NIST releases The Text Recognition Algorithm Independent Evaluation (TRAIT) (NISTIR 8199) , a report that describes how a dataset called the Text Recognition...
NIST releases Certification of Standard Reference Material (SRM) 968f: Fat-Soluble Vitamins in Frozen Human Serum (NIST SP 260-188) . This publication is...
At the 45th Annual NIST Awards Ceremony, 16 ITL employees were recognized for their service to the country.
The ceremony was held Dec. 13, 2017, concurrently...