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Bill Newhouse (Fed)
Cybersecurity Engineer & Project Lead, National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
Bill Newhouse is a cybersecurity engineer at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in the Applied Cybersecurity Division in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).
He is presently leading projects on Data Classification and Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography. His work at the NCCoE, NIST's applied cybersecurity lab, pushes for the adoption of functional cybersecurity reference designs built from commercially available technologies provided by project collaborators. These projects include establishing communities of interest with members from industry, academia, and government and using that community to help define project workstreams and project deliverables that can support their needs to mitigate privacy and cybersecurity risk. NCCoE projects are documented in NIST SP 1800 series publications known as practices guides.
He has completed guides addressing cybersecurity risk in the hospitality and retail sectors as well as an early demonstration of derived credentials. He completed a collaborative effort funded by the U.S. Department of Energy to create a Community Cybersecurity Framework Profile for the Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) industry and to map elements of their Cybersecurity Capability Maturity Model (C2M2) to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework. He is also the NCCOE lead for engagement with the financial services sector lead to identify use cases to explore in NCCoE projects.
Mr. Newhouse coordinated across the US gov't, industry and academia to publish the August 2017 version of the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) Cybersecurity Workforce Framework, NIST SP 800-181.
Mr. Newhouse began his Federal career over 38 years ago at NSA as a cooperative education student. During his 23 years at NSA, his focus shifted from telecommunication systems to information assurance. His final five years at NSA included two assignments in the Office of the Secretary of Defense where he focused on cybersecurity policy, R&D oversight and technology discovery.
For the last two decades, he has participated in Federal cybersecurity focused R&D working groups and contributed to three different Federal cybersecurity R&D Strategic Plans.
Mr. Newhouse received a Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering from the Georgia Institute of Technology and a Master of Science in the Field of Telecommunications Engineering from the George Washington University.