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NIST to speed up hiring for critical positions
Changes to the The National Institute of Standards and Technology's hiring protocol will update its 13-year-old Alternative Personnel Management System. The new rules will let NIST have direct-hire authority to expedite hiring for critical functions.
Tags: management , hiring , OPM , Meg Beasley
NIST calls for new ways to manage IT security risks
National Institute of Standards and Technology guidelines are out. NIST's Rob Ross explains the new standards.
Tags: Ron Ross , FISMA , Cybersecurity Update , technology , Dorobek Insider
NIST unveils new approach to risk management
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has a new way of managing risks.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , management , Dorobek Insider
Cryptographers chosen for NIST contest
A competition to find a replacement for one of the gold-standard computer security algorithms used in almost all secure, online transactions just heated up.
Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , SHA-1 , technology
NIST, DHS partner on cybersecurity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology and the Homeland Security Department's Science and Technology directorate are teaming up with the private sector to improve the cybersecurity of financial services.
Tags: Federal Drive , Cybersecurity Update , cybersecurity , DHS , Financial Services Sector Coordinating Council for
NIST, DHS team with finance sector for cybersecurity
NIST and DHS are partnering with the private sector on cybersecurity.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , DHS , Dorobek Insider
NIST, DHS to partner with financial industry on cybersecurity
The agencies sign a MOU to work more closely on research and development on new technologies to protect the financial services sector's critical infrastructure. This agreement follows a pilot DHS and DoD have been working on to share threat information.
Tags: technology , industry , Aneesh Chopra , Howard Schimdt , Office of Science and Technology Policy , White House , DHS , DoD , financial services sector , cybersecurity , Jason Miller
GAO: Vulnerabilities remain in agency wireless networks
Auditors look at how 24 agencies secure their wireless networks and find some progress, but many of the same problems that GAO found in 2005.
Tags: technology , GAO , cybersercurity , wireless networks , BlackBerry , smartphones , Jason Miller
NIST studies cyber vulnerabilities
Chris Johnson, a NIST IT specialist, was Tom Temin's guest on the Federal Security Spotlight this week. Johnson explained how NIST studies cyber threats.
Tags: Cybersecurity Update , technology , Chris Johnson , Tom Temin , Federal Security Spotlight , Dorobek Insider
How vulnerable is the National Vulnerability Database?
Chris Johnson oversees the National Vulnerability Database at the National Institute of Standards and Technology. He is Tom Temin's guest this week on Federal Security Spotlight.
November 11, 2010
Tags: cybersecurity , National Vulnerability Database , Chris Johnson , Tom Temin , Federal Security Spotlight , technology
