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Fiscal Year 2024 Annual Report for NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Program

April 28, 2025
Author(s)
Patrick O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos
Throughout Fiscal Year 2024 (FY 2024) — from October 1, 2023, through September 30, 2024 — the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program successfully responded to numerous challenges and opportunities in security and

Guidelines for Evaluating Differential Privacy Guarantees

March 6, 2025
Author(s)
Joseph Near, David Darais, Naomi Lefkovitz
This publication describes differential-privacy -- a mathematical framework that quantifies privacy loss to entities when their data appears in a dataset. It serves to fulfill one of the assignments to the National Institute of Standards and Technology

Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program

September 12, 2024
Author(s)
Marian Merritt, SUSAN HANSCHE, BRENDA ELLIS, Julie Nethery Snyder, KEVIN SANCHEZ-CHERRY, DONALD WALDEN
This publication provides guidance for federal agencies and organizations to develop and manage a life cycle approach to building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Learning Program (CPLP). The approach is intended to address the needs of large and small

Fiscal Year 2023 Cybersecurity and Privacy Annual Report

May 20, 2024
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos
During Fiscal Year 2023 (FY 2023) – from October 1, 2022, through September 30, 2023 –the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program successfully responded to numerous challenges and opportunities in security and privacy

Mobile Device Security: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

September 28, 2023
Author(s)
Gema Howell, Katie Boeckl, Nakia R. Grayson, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jason Ajmo, R. Eugene Craft, Milissa McGinnis, Kenneth Sandlin, Oksana Slivina, Julie Snyder, Paul Ward
Many organizations provide employees the flexibility to use their personal mobile devices to perform work-related activities. An ineffectively secured personal mobile device could expose an organization or employee to data loss or a privacy compromise

Data Guardians: Behaviors and Challenges While Caring for Others' Personal Data

July 23, 2023
Author(s)
Julie Haney, Sandra Prettyman, Mary Frances Theofanos, Susanne M. Furman
Many professional domains require the collection and use of personal data. Protecting systems and data is a major concern in these settings, necessitating that workers who handle personal data under- stand and practice good security and privacy habits

2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy Annual Report

May 30, 2023
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte
During Fiscal Year 2022 (FY 2022) – from October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022 –the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program successfully responded to numerous challenges and opportunities in security and privacy

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

February 13, 2023
Author(s)
Alexander Nelson, Eoghan Casey
The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage pipeline for that data, from research problem formulation, through discovery of applicable

2021 Cybersecurity and Privacy Annual Report

September 26, 2022
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos, Greg Witte, Larry Feldman
During Fiscal Year 2021 (FY 2021) – from October 1, 2020, through September 30, 2021 – the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program successfully responded to numerous challenges and opportunities in security and

Analyzing Data Privacy for Edge Systems

July 14, 2022
Author(s)
Olivera Kotevska, Jordan Johnson, A. Gilad Kusne
Internet-of-Things (IoT)-based streaming applications are all around us. Currently, we are transitioning from IoT processing being performed on the cloud to the edge. While moving to the edge provides significant networking efficiency benefits, IoT edge

Discovery of digital forensic dataset characteristics with CASE-Corpora

July 11, 2022
Author(s)
Alexander Nelson
The digital forensics community has generated training and reference data over the course of decades. However, significant challenges persist today in the usage pipeline for that data, from research problem formulation, through discovery of applicable

Development and Evaluation of Bluetooth Low-Energy Device for Electronic Encounter Metrics

January 20, 2022
Author(s)
Katy Keenan, Joe Aumentado, Harold Booth, Kimberly Briggman, Mikail Kraft-Molleda, Michele Martin, Rene Peralta, Angela Robinson, Krister Shalm, Michelle Stephens, Emily Townsend, Sae Woo Nam
The coronavirus disease 2019 (COVID-19) pandemic led to the need for tracking of physical contacts and potential exposure to disease. Traditional contact tracing can be augmented by electronic tools called "electronic contact tracing" or "exposure

Privacy-enhancing cryptography to complement differential privacy

November 3, 2021
Author(s)
Luis Brandao, Rene Peralta
In this post, we illustrate how various techniques from privacy-enhancing cryptography, coupled with differential privacy protection, can be used to protect data privacy while enabling data utility. Of notable interest is the setting where there are

2020 Cybersecurity and Privacy Annual Report

September 28, 2021
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte
During Fiscal Year 2020 (FY 2020), from October 1, 2019 through September 30, 2020, the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy Program successfully responded to numerous challenges and opportunities in security and privacy
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