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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Cybersecurity Awareness Month: Be Cyber Smart

October 4, 2021

David Temoshok

This week’s blog post highlighting Cybersecurity Awareness Month kicks off our series and is from NIST’s Dave Temoshok, Senior Advisor in the Information Technology Laboratory Applied Cybersecurity

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Virtual Events Amplify NIST’s Cybersecurity and Privacy International Engagements

September 13, 2021

Amy Mahn

For the past many months, NIST has taken advantage of the shift to online events to deepen our international engagement. NIST looked overseas as we kicked off our virtual Cybersecurity Risk Management

Staff Spotlight: NIST’s Human Factors Scientist

August 11, 2021

Yee-Yin Choong

For years, NIST has been conducting research in the areas of human-centered design and evaluation, usable cybersecurity, public safety communication technology, augmented-reality usability, biometrics

Automatic Proofs of Differential Privacy

July 22, 2021

Chike Abuah

We are excited to introduce our fourth guest author in this blog series, Chike Abuah, PhD student in computer science at the University of Vermont, whose research expands the state of the art in the

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IoT Non-Technical Supporting Capabilities: You Talked, We Listened

July 19, 2021

Barbara Cuthill

As part of our ongoing community engagement following the publication of four IoT cybersecurity draft documents in December 2020, NIST conducted a quartet of roundtable discussions in June 2021