National Institute of Standards and Technology
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Making the exclusive cut is cybersecurity rock star - Donna Dodson. She leads the National Institute of Standards and Technology\'s Computer Security Division and is the Deputy Chief Cybersecurity Advisor.
March 24, 2011 -
Hildy Ferraiolo, a NIST computer scientist, explains how the standard is changing to access federal buildings and computer systems.
March 21, 2011 -
Despite a 2006 mandate to secure mobile devices and implement two-factor authentication, only just over half of federal agencies have managed to do so. OMB submits its annual FISMA report to Congress detailing the steps the government has taken to improve cybersecurity, including spending $12 billion on cybersecurity last year.
March 21, 2011 -
Government and industry leaders are coming together to discuss progress the government has made to advance open standards in interoperability, portability and security in cloud computing. The National Institute of Standards and Technology will hold its Cloud Computing Forum & Workshop III April 7-8 at the agency’s headquarters in Gaithersburg, Md. Working groups formed at [...]
March 20, 2011 -
NIST has updated its Cybersecurity Recommendations for Government. Learn how your agency will be able to better manage information security risks from project leader for FISMA implementation, Ron Ross.
March 08, 2011 -
For the first time, NIST is seeking feedback on security controls for information systems in federal governnent.
March 07, 2011 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final version of its guidelines for information risk management.
March 04, 2011 -
OMB mandated departments implement continuous monitoring of their cyber networks by 2012. Part of meeting that goal is understanding what hardware and software currently reside on the computing backbone.
February 25, 2011 -
NIST cloud guidelines address security, privacy concerns We told you last week about the two draft cloud documents NIST published. This week, Federal News Radio spoke with NIST computer scientists Lee Badger and Tim Grance about those docs. Federal News Radio host Chris Dorobek also discussed how agencies can take advantage of the costs and [...]
February 13, 2011 -
NIST\'s Gregory Strouse explains why the agency wants to end the use of mercury.
February 11, 2011 -
NIST\'s Lee Badger and Tim Grance explain how the public can comment on two draft documents offering guidelines for public cloud use.
February 08, 2011 -
The public has until Feb. 28 to comment on two draft documents on cloud computing for the government.
February 08, 2011 -
Jeremy Grant shares his top priorities as the incoming
February 03, 2011 -
Two draft documents released by the National Institute of Standards and Technology define and set guidelines for government cloud computing.
February 02, 2011 -
The National Institute of Standards and Technology published two draft documents on cloud computing today. The first offers NIST’s definition of cloud computing and the second offers guidelines on security and privacy in cloud computing. Both documents are open for public comment through February 28, 2011. NIST also announced the launch of a new Cloud [...]
February 02, 2011