Security News

3 steps to embracing NIST 800 security controls (Help Net Security)
2016-04-15 13:15

One proven path to improving any organization’s security posture is to embrace the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s risk management framework set forth in its NIST 800 series of...

NIST security standard to protect credit cards, health information (Help Net Security)
2016-03-31 13:47

For many years, when you swiped your credit card, your number would be stored on the card reader, making encryption difficult to implement. Now, after nearly a decade of collaboration with...

New NIST Encryption Guidelines (Schneier on Security)
2016-03-17 14:54

NIST has published a draft of their new standard for encryption use: "NIST Special Publication 800-175B, Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic...