National Institute of Standards and Technology
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The Defense Department has carved a bug bounty path that civilian agencies can follow on their own, as long as they don't try to compare their results to the same level as DoD.
March 30, 2017 -
Cybersecurity experts from federal agencies and industry say the best defense starts with basic "blocking and tackling," and then a layer of ad lib to throw off hackers who are reading from the same cyber defense cookbooks.
March 29, 2017 -
Recruiting and hiring cybersecurity talent has long been an uphill battle for the federal government, but the National Institute of Standards and Technology wants to make sure that President Donald Trump's 90-day hiring freeze won't make the problem worse.
February 17, 2017 -
No agency is fully immune from possible cyber attacks, despite how strong defenses may be. Murugiah Souppaya, computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, spoke on Federal Drive with Tom Temin about his company's recently released guide for cybersecurity event recovery.
February 10, 2017 -
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