National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Maria Horton, CEO of EmeSEc, explains why having a strong cyber incident response plan is critical to your organization’s success.
January 31, 2017 Sicher Consulting president Alex Grohmann, Deloitte's John Dyson and Think Forward Consulting president Brian Gay join host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk to discuss how to improve the cybersecurity framework for the federal government. January 10, 2017
January 09, 2017-
The Office of Management and Budget issued two more memos, focusing on personal data breach response requirements and industry and vendor communications.
January 09, 2017 -
The Office of Personnel Management published updated instructions for agencies to assign revised standard codes to their cybersecurity positions. It's one of several recent steps the administration has taken to implement the Federal Cybersecurity Workforce Assessment Act, which Congress passed at the end of 2015.
January 05, 2017 -
Are fingerprints better than passwords for securing government systems? That's what the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace is trying to determine.
January 03, 2017 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology gives a holiday gift to agencies and organizations in a how-to guide for recovering from a cyber attack.
December 23, 2016 -
As the network of digital devices expands around the world and becomes even more interconnected, it's up to the public and private sectors, as well as the academic community and consumers, to do their due diligence in protecting their cyber systems.
December 12, 2016 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has developed the Cybersecurity Workforce Framework and just released a draft. Bill Newhouse, deputy director of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education at NIST, tells Federal News Radio's Eric White on Federal Drive with Tom Temin more about it.
November 16, 2016 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology released its final version of Special Publication 800-160. Federal cyber officials say they want the guide to not only strengthen cyber defenses, but start a national dialogue about the growing Internet of Things.
November 15, 2016 -
Classified documents usually get all the attention, but a new rule is addressing the way controlled information is marked and disseminated in non-classified documents.
November 08, 2016 -
Cybersecurity fatigue and governance are two fields researchers are looking into to learn how to improve cybersecurity in the government.
October 18, 2016 -
The constant danger and the endless procedures to ensure cybersecurity combine to produce a new psychological phenomenon — security fatigue. That's according to a group of researchers from the National Institute of Standards and Technology. Computer scientist Mary Theofanos joins Federal Drive with Tom Temin with more.
October 14, 2016 -
If 800-160 establishes, or re-establishes anything, it's that security is an engineering discipline.
October 13, 2016 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence develops guidance and best practices on broad cybersecurity concepts that can be applied across multiple business environments.
October 12, 2016 -
The website will launch in a few weeks and it will be a place where agencies can find cybersecurity best practices. The site is part of a multi-pronged approach to closing gaps in federal cybersecurity. Educating and training the government cyber workforce is another priority of the new federal chief information security officer.
October 11, 2016