NIST has drafted guidelines for how to use its cybersecurity framework to address cyberthreats and other security issues that can target state and local election infrastructure and disrupt voting.
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The U.S. federal government is increasingly using IoT devices across its agencies, which has raised concerns about security. NIST has published draft guidance to help federal agencies navigate safe IoT deployment and use, says Kat Megas, program manager in NIST's Cybersecurity for IoT Program.
In the wake of the SolarWinds breach, NIST's Ron Ross has turned his attention to systems security engineering - and the reality that the adversaries are exploiting it to their advantage better than the defenders are. This disparity, Ross says, has to change.
Many healthcare organizations are failing to address shortcomings in security risk management for their supply chains, says former healthcare CIO David Finn, describing findings of a recent study assessing the state of cybersecurity in the sector.
The U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology this week released a long-awaited guidance update, Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5, describing "next-generation security and privacy controls" and how to use them.
State CISOs are finding it challenging to meet the needs for risk management and new cybersecurity investments at a time when tax revenue continues to shrink during the COVID-19 pandemic and agencies are expecting budget cuts.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has released the final version of its "zero trust" architecture guidelines that provide a road map for using the architecture in security programs.
"Where do I start?" It's the most common question posed by data protection professionals tasked with leading a new data privacy management effort. Whether it's developing a data inventory, drafting a breach notification plan, or selecting controls to implement, a good place to start is with the NIST Privacy...
Dallas County, one of the 10 largest counties in the U.S., was accustomed to an entirely on-premises workforce. Then came the pandemic. The Texas county's CISO, Michael Anderson, tells how he planned for business resiliency - and why he owes it all to frameworks.
Metrics can help CISOs clearly communicate the potential impact of risks to senior executives and win support for a risk management strategy, say Randall Frietzsche, enterprise CISO of Denver Health, and consultant Dave Bailey of CynergisTek, who describe a step-by-step approach in a joint interview.
When it comes to the cyberattacks, very few are as scary as the Advanced Persistent
Threats (APTs). The National Institute to Standards and
Technology (NIST) defines it as "a long-term pattern of
targeted, sophisticated attacks."
Threat actors are using more sophisticated attack methods which may go undetected...
You already have some sort of third party security program in place - perhaps you've built a security questionnaire based on internal policies or an industry standard such as ISO or NIST. You may have even "right-sized" your questionnaire specifically for different types of supplier relationships and developed a few...
The latest edition of the ISMG Security Report analyzes the indictments of four Chinese military officers in connection with the 2017 Equifax data breach. Also featured: Advice on implementing NIST's new privacy framework; lessons learned in a breach disclosure.
Although NIST's new privacy framework is agnostic toward any particular privacy law, "it gives organizations building blocks to help them meet any obligations under any particular law or jurisdiction" says Naomi Lefkovitz, a NIST senior privacy adviser.
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