Cybersecurity
Naval Research Lab wants cyber risk help
The Naval Research Laboratory has plenty of IT systems that need certifying for cyber risk.
Digital Government
Britain takes digital ID out of beta as U.S. lags
The United Kingdom will go live with its governmentwide digital identity platform, GOV.UK Verify, in the coming days. The U.S. government will need a little more time.
Cybersecurity
NIST looks to transform federal authentication
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is planning "transformational" changes to its technical guidelines for digital authentication.
People
AT&T's Chris Boyer to chair NIST privacy board
Chris Boyer of AT&T will take over leadership of NIST's Information Security and Privacy Advisory board from Google's Peter Weinberger.
Cybersecurity
NIST looks to reengineer thinking about cyber
NIST is set to release an overhauled systems security engineering document it hopes will spur construction of better cybersecurity systems from the start.
Cybersecurity
Obama’s cyber commission looks to next administration and beyond
The group's recommendations should be a "down payment for the next administration," Lisa Monaco, Obama's top counterterrorism adviser, told the inaugural meeting of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity.
Cybersecurity
NIST pledges 'global acceptability' in crypto standards
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is trying to reassert its credibility as a trusted technical agency when it comes to cryptographic standards, almost three years after Edward Snowden's disclosures.
Cybersecurity
Why data privacy is up to developers
Many users lack the tools, knowledge or inclination to control the flow of their data through the Internet of Things, which means developers are responsible for keeping data safe.
Cybersecurity
NIST is looking for a few good cryptographers
NIST's Computer Security Division wants to hire 15 cryptographers over the next five years to tackle emerging areas such as quantum and lightweight cryptography.
Cybersecurity
Presidential cybersecurity commission gets a director
A private-sector security evangelist will be writing the cyber report President Barack Obama requested by the end of the year.
Cybersecurity
NIST: Time to take telework's cyber risks seriously
With telework and BYOD on the rise, NIST is updating its guidelines from 2009 to address how organizations and individuals can protect themselves from cyberattacks.
Cybersecurity
Can Obama’s cyber commission outlast his administration?
President Obama's recently announced Commission for Enhancing National Cybersecurity has ambitions to produce an actionable framework that will carry over to the next administration and seeks to invigorate a younger, more diverse cybersecurity workforce pipeline.
Cybersecurity
NIST looks to strengthen crypto backbone
NIST is looking to increase trust in the technical underpinnings of encryption, by strengthening cryptographic random bit generators.
Digital Government
Wanted: agile robots
NIST is looking for new agility in robotic design, including smart manufacturing techniques and component interoperability.
Modernization
NPPD cyber and infrastructure security personnel are side by side
Infrastructure and cybersecurity personnel are now co-located as part of NPPD’s efforts to coordinate cyber and physical threat information.
Cybersecurity
NIST wants to know how cybersecurity framework is used
NIST is seeking input from users on ways to improve its voluntary framework of cybersecurity measures
Cybersecurity
NIST demystifies whitelisting, Pelosi leads trip to China and more
News and notes from around the federal IT community.
Digital Government
No smart city is an island
NIST is pushing a framework to ensure that smart technologies work across multiple municipalities -- and give small companies a fighting chance in the metropolis of tomorrow.
Cybersecurity
Professionalizing cyber means new workforce standards
The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education wants to get everyone speaking the same language on cybersecurity education and jobs.
Cybersecurity
Commerce seeks to widen acceptance of cyber framework
An FCC official told a telecom audience that though adherence is voluntary, it's in companies' best interest to participate in the framework.
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