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Cybersecurity Insights

a NIST blog

Catch NIST Cybersecurity for IoT & Privacy Engineering Programs at CES

December 21, 2017

Katerina Megas

NIST’s Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Privacy Engineering Programs are heading to the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) on January 9-12, and are looking forward to meeting with a

SP 800-63 errata is now published! Corrections and clarifications are here!

December 4, 2017

Paul Grassi

Big news! Today we published errata for the NIST SP 800-63-3: Digital Identity Guidelines suite to provide additional clarification on requirements and informative sections that many of you had

TIG in action at next week's Federal Identity Forum, IDESG Plenary

September 8, 2017

Mike Garcia

We may have spent more than a year working with you to update major federal guidance – we’re looking at you, Special Publication (SP) 800-63 – but our work is far from complete. Now we're on to the

How will they measure up? RTI awarded to evaluate the class of 2016 state and local pilots!

September 7, 2017

Mike Garcia

NIST is the federal government’s measurement agency. While the ultimate goal is innovation and adoption in the market, we need to know that the solutions being deployed present an advance for

Return of the Great Zoltan! Our 800-63 FAQs answer life’s most perplexing questions (about digital identity, anyway).

July 27, 2017

Paul Grassi

It’s been more than a month since we released Special Publication 800-63: Digital Identity Guidelines, and we have been thrilled by all the positive feedback – we are glad you like it as much as we do