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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

HELP WANTED: Growing a Workforce for Managing Privacy Risk

August 20, 2020

Naomi Lefkovitz and Dylan Gilbert

It’s a very different world that we’re living in from the one in which we published the NIST Privacy Framework this past January. These changes have demonstrated that the need for effective privacy

Staff Spotlight: NIST Usable Cybersecurity Security and Privacy of Smart Home Devices

August 12, 2020

Susanne Furman

In March, we highlighted the work that NIST conducts in usable cybersecurity technology and protection against phishing scams by sharing thoughts from Kristen Greene, a NIST cognitive scientist

Keeping the Lights On

July 31, 2020

Ron Ross

The only thing worse than a pandemic would be a pandemic without power. If the lights dim due to a disruption in power generation or distribution, our productivity and quality of life do, too. In

Differential Privacy for Privacy-Preserving Data Analysis: An Introduction to our Blog Series

July 27, 2020

Joseph Near, David Darais and Kaitlin Boeckl

Does your organization want to aggregate and analyze data to learn trends, but in a way that protects privacy? Or perhaps you are already using differential privacy tools, but want to expand (or share

Director's Corner Series with Ram D. Sriram

July 9, 2020

Ram Sriram

Our third Director’s Corner series blog post brings insights from Ram D. Sriram, NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory’s Software and Systems Division (SSD) chief. Ram oversees the work of NIST