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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.
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.
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.
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.
Cybersecurity fatigue and governance are two fields researchers are looking into to learn how to improve cybersecurity in the government.
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.
If 800-160 establishes, or re-establishes anything, it's that security is an engineering discipline.
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.
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.
The Pentagon is developing a secure cloud computing architecture that will create a standard approach for boundary and application level security for commercial services.
Lots of potential for reducing the attack surfaces lies in getting rid of forgotten and unknown devices that remain connected.
What is the state of cybersecurity in the federal government? Find out when Strategic Cyber Ventures CTO Ann Barron-DiCamillo joins host John Gilroy on this week's Federal Tech Talk. September 20, 2016
Important lessons are being learned as the government takes tentative steps toward the cloud computing environment.
Ron Ross, a computer security fellow at the National Institute of Standards and Technology, told crowds on Tuesday that faster migration to the cloud could make federal data systems more secure from malicious attacks.