Seagate Technology's government solutions business has launched a supply chain assurance project with the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and its industry partners. “Securing the supply chain and verifying the integrity of devices is of paramount importance to the U.S. federal government," said Mike Moritzkat, managing director and CEO of Seagate Government Solutions.
Read More »NIST Center Names 10 Tech Industry Participants in Industrial Control System Security Initiative
A National Institute of Standards and Technology-backed collaborative hub for cybersecurity has asked 10 vendors to develop an approach for the manufacturing sector to protect integrity of data in industrial control systems.
Read More »NIST Wants Orgs to Contribute Products to Support 5G Cybersecurity Demo Project
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is asking organizations to share their products and technical expertise in support of a project that seeks to demonstrate how components of the 5G network architecture can offer security capabilities to meet industry’s compliance requirements and reduce identified risks.
Read More »NCCoE to Develop Cybersecurity Guidelines for Telehealth Ecosystem
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has proposed the creation of a reference framework that will help address privacy and security gaps in healthcare organizations that employ telehealth systems.
Read More »NCCoE Taps Eight Firms for Energy Resource Cybersecurity Effort
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has partnered with eight firms to conduct research and development activities and establish cybersecurity best practices for distributed energy resource environments.
Read More »BlackRidge Technology to Help NIST Secure Industrial Internet of Things
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has selected BlackRidge Technology International to take part in an industrial cybersecurity project on distributed energy resources.
Read More »Tenable’s Jamie Brown: Public-Private Partnerships Key to Grid Security
Jamie Brown, director of global government affairs at Tenable, wrote in a blog post published Wednesday that public-private partnerships could help improve coordination to ensure the security of the electric grid.
Read More »NIST to Develop Enterprise Software Patching Guide, Seeks Collaborators
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Thursday invited partners to collaborate with the agency on the Critical Cybersecurity Hygiene: Patching the Enterprise Building Block. The project aims to developing a guide for deploying software security patches with the help of input from the academe or industry.
Read More »NIST Recommends CyberX Platform in Draft Industrial Control System Security Report
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a report that cites the potential of CyberX’s technology to help manufacturers avoid cyber attacks on industrial control systems. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence partnered with multiple software providers to document how behavior anomaly detection tools can help manufacturing companies secure …
Read More »NIST, Consortium Launch Project to Secure Cloud Workloads; Dell EMC’s Cameron Chehreh Quoted
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and a consortium of technology companies have teamed up to build a “trusted cloud” platform that seeks to demonstrate how credible compute pools that leverage commercial systems can offer security capabilities, MeriTalk reported Monday. “These capabilities will not only provide assurance that cloud …
Read More »NIST Invites Tech Vendors to Participate in ‘Internet of Things’ Security Effort
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has issued an invitation for commercial organizations to contribute technology platforms and technical expertise to help secure internet of things devices. NIST said in a Federal Register notice posted Wednesday the agency’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence intends to partner with companies to identify methods …
Read More »SecurityMatters to Help NIST Develop Manufacturing Cybersecurity Guide
SecurityMatters will collaborate with the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to develop guidance for manufacturers to secure industrial control systems against cyber threats. NCCoE plans to include SecurityMatters’ SilentDefense anomaly detection technology along with other cyber tools in the “Capabilities Assessment for Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems” guide to demonstrate ICS security …
Read More »NIST to Demo CyberX Industrial Cybersecurity Platform
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has partnered with cybersecurity startup CyberX to demonstrate the company’s industrial cybersecurity platform. NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will demonstrate the CyberX ICS tool in simulated manufacturing environments with human-machine interfaces, programmable logic controllers and operational technology protocols, the company said Thursday. The effort seeks to create an NIST …
Read More »Tripwire, NCCoE Collaborate on Data Integrity Guide Development
Tripwire has helped the National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence to draft a cybersecurity practice guidance on data integrity. The draft guide, titled “NIST SP 1800-11, Data Integrity: Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events,” suggests methods for businesses to handle a data corruption incident within an information technology …
Read More »NIST, NextLabs Partner to Help Finance Industry Adopt Access Rights Mgmt Practices
The National Institute of Standards and Technology‘s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has partnered with NextLabs to craft a framework for the agency to implement and administer access rights management guidelines across the financial services industry. NCCoE aims to equip financial institutions with a centralized system to manage and protect disparate identity …
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