Building Blocks
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) relies on building blocks to design and implement technical use cases that fit the cybersecurity needs of a particular business sector.
Building blocks are the specific technology components, such as hardware and software, that NCEP partners donate to the center. The NCCoE’s leadership team uses these investments to strengthen, broaden and integrate the center’s infrastructure for working on cybersecurity issues. The center’s technical staff integrates building blocks into one or more projects and their accompanying technical use cases.
Currently, the NCCoE, as part of the NIST Information Technology Laboratory, is integrating building blocks into a broadly applicable cybersecurity solution: enforcement of trusted geolocation restrictions for cloud computing technologies.
Moving forward, the NCCoE is collaborating with partners to identify and secure building blocks for emerging use cases. The NCCoE and NIST take measures to protect and prevent the disclosure of a partner’s intellectual property if and when it is a part of a donated building block.
