Security News

Agency Now Accepting Comments on Latest DraftThe National Institute of Standards and Technology expects to release its much anticipated privacy framework by year's end. It's now accepting comments...

Tips on Keeping Picture Archiving and Communications Systems SecureNew draft guidance from the National Institute of Standards and Technology aims to help healthcare organizations improve the...

NIST Cyber Security FrameworkNIST guidelines often become the foundation for best practice recommendations across the security industry and are incorporated into other standards.

Cybersecurity is usually not a user’s primary duty, yet they suffer an increasing burden to respond to security warnings, maintain many complex passwords, and make security decisions for which...

Senator Says Current Methods Offer Inadequate ProtectionsU.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create new standards and guidelines for...

Senator Ron Wyden has asked the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to create and publish a guide for securely sharing sensitive data over the internet. read more

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), this week announced that it’s working on a project whose goal is to...

Shifting cybersecurity from a defensive posture to one of managing risk is becoming more important for small-business owners. Here's must-read risk-management guidance.

NIST thinks it has reached an important milestone in complex software testing with something called Combinatorial Coverage Measurement (CCM).

The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week announced that updates to its Automated Combinatorial Testing for Software (ACTS) research toolkit should help developers...