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Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum

The Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum is an informal group sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to promote the sharing of cybersecurity and privacy knowledge, best practices, and resources among U.S. federal, state, and local government, and higher education organizations. The Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum ("the Forum") maintains an extensive email list, and holds quarterly meetings - including an annual 2-day...

Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group MCSPWG

Cloud computing has become the core accelerator of US Government digital business transformation. NIST is establishing a Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group (MCSPWG) to research best practices for securing complex cloud solutions involving multiple service providers and multiple clouds. The White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity highlights that “the Federal Government needs to make bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital...

NIST Risk Management Framework RMF

Recent Updates: July 13, 2022: First online comment period using the SP 800-53 Public Comment Site open through August 12, 2022. View and comment on proposed changes (“candidates”) to SP 800-53 Rev. 5 controls. June 3, 2022: NIST Cybersecurity Framework and Supply Chain Risk Management Request for Information | Initial Summary Analysis of Responses February 2, 2022: Request for Information | Evaluating and Improving NIST Cybersecurity Resources: The NIST Cybersecurity Framework and...

Pairing-Based Cryptography

Recently, what are known as “pairings” on elliptic curves have been a very active area of research in cryptography. A pairing is a function that maps a pair of points on an elliptic curve into a finite field. Their unique properties have enabled many new cryptographic protocols that had not previously been feasible. In particular, identity-based encryption (IBE) is a pairing-based scheme that has received considerable attention. IBE uses some form of a person (or entity’s) identification to...

Privacy Engineering

[Redirect to https://www.nist.gov/itl/applied-cybersecurity/privacy-engineering] The NIST Privacy Engineering Program’s (PEP) mission is to support the development of trustworthy information systems by applying measurement science and system engineering principles to the creation of frameworks, risk models, guidance, tools, and standards that protect privacy and, by extension, civil liberties.

Privacy Framework

[Redirect to https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework] The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.

Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography PEC

The Cryptographic Technology Group (CTG) in the Computer Security Division (CSD) at NIST intends to accompany the progress of emerging technologies in the area of privacy enhancing cryptography (PEC). The PEC project seeks to promote the development of reference material that can contribute to a better understanding of PEC, namely how advanced cryptographic tools can be used to enable achieving privacy goals in myriad applications. The technical challenge is often to enable parties to interact...

Usable Cybersecurity

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Usable Cybersecurity team brings together experts in diverse disciplines to work on projects aimed at understanding and improving the usability of cybersecurity software, hardware, systems, and processes. Our goal is to provide actionable guidance for policymakers, system engineers and security professionals so that they can make better decisions that enhance the usability of cybersecurity in their organizations. Recent Media...