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Barbara Guttman (Fed)

Group Leader

Barbara Guttman is the leader of the Software Quality Group, where she leads projects in computer forensics and software assurance. Prior to joining the Software Quality Group, she was Associate Director of ITL, Senior Program Analyst to the NIST Director, and worked in computer security and federal information policy. She has been awarded the U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal in 2008 for work developing guidelines for voting systems and the NIST Bronze Medal in 1995 for work in computer security.

Awards

U.S. Department of Commerce Gold Medal, 2008

NIST Bronze Medal, 1995

Publications

De-Identifying Government Datasets: Techniques and Governance

Author(s)
Simson Garfinkel, Joseph Near, Aref Dajani, Phyllis Singer, Barbara Guttman
De-identification is a general term for any process of removing the association between a set of identifying data and the data subject. This document describes

Report of the Digital Evidence Task Group Quality Study

Author(s)
Barbara Guttman, Kelly Sauerwein, James R. Lyle
The report describes the results of a project performed by a study group from the Organization of Scientific Area Committees (OSAC) for Forensic Science Digital

Results from a Black-Box Study for Digital Examiners

Author(s)
Barbara Guttman, Mary T. Laamanen, Craig Russell, James Darnell, Chris Atha
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a black-box study in conjunction with a scientific foundation review documented in NISTIR
Created October 9, 2019, Updated December 8, 2022