Security News > 2020 > May > Modern crypto standards pave the way to stronger security

What's being done to bolster information security as cyberattacks continue to happen? The National Institute of Standards and Technology, a non-regulatory agency of the U.S. Department of Commerce, has been at the forefront of guiding cryptographic security programs and standards for more than 20 years.

NIST morphed from its original name - the National Bureau of Standards that began at the turn of the 20th century - into its current iteration as the mobile revolution began to take off in the mid '90s. To contend with cyberattacks in the early days, NIST released the Cryptographic Module Validation Program to certify cryptographic modules and the FIPS 140-1 protocol that independent labs use to test cryptographic modules.

The new FIPS 140-3 standard will be released in September 2020, laying out the security requirements for validating cryptographic modules during the design, implementation and operational deployment phases.

Stronger information security with modern crypto standards.

The shift to ACVP and FIPS 140-3 for testing, validating and certifying cryptographic algorithms and modules is the way forward.

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