NIST identifies information security’s essential role as the protection of information and information systems. Infosec professionals work to prevent the unauthorized access or use of ...

Ross also supports the State Department in the international outreach program for information security and critical infrastructure protection. He previously served as the director of the National ...

Patrick Garrity of infosec intelligence outfit VulnCheck, pored over the CVE-labeled bugs successfully analyzed by the NVD between February 12 and September 21, and reported "mixed" results. NIST ...

Podcast interview with Ron Ross, senior computer scientist at the National Institute of Standards and Technology on Special Publication 800-37, Revision 1, Guide ...

The report stressed that ongoing information security monitoring is a “critical part” of NIST’s risk management framework. An organization’s security architecture and accompanying security program ...

which also assisted with evaluation of information security practices. NIST also released in July SP 800-53A, which explains how to evaluate a network's security controls, risk management ...

NIST is requesting public comments on the draft document, which blends the best of two globally recognized and widely used NIST resources: the organizational performance evaluation strategies from ...

Another NIST publication, this framework provides ... Getting a program assessment means strengthening your information security controls.

Prism Infosec, the independent cybersecurity consultancy ... The Cyber Maturity Assessment has mapped to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and covers ...

NIST 800-171 consists of over 100 IT controls broken into ... protection for federal information and systems that are covered under the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA). WIU may ...

Read on to learn more about the similarities and differences between information security and cybersecurity. The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recognizes information ...