Security News

NIST Recommends SMS Two-Factor Authentication Deprecation (Threatpost)
2016-07-27 16:57

The U.S. National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) said SMS-based two factor authentication would soon be deprecated.

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...