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Human-Centered Cybersecurity
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Human-Centered Cybersecurity program, which is part of the Human-Centered Technologies Group (formerly named Visualization and Usability Group), seeks to "champion the human in cybersecurity" by conducting interdisciplinary research to better understand and improve people’s interactions with cybersecurity systems, products, processes, and services. Be sure to connect with NIST and the Human-Centered Cybersecurity program on social...
macOS Security APPLE-OS
NIST has traditionally published secure configuration guides for Apple operating systems, e.g., NIST SP 800-179. The macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) seeks to simplify the macOS security development cycle by reducing the amount of effort required to implement security baselines. This collaboration between federal organizations minimizes the duplicate effort that would be required to administer individual security baselines. Additionally, the secure baseline content provided is easily...
Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group MCSPWG
Cloud computing has become the core accelerator of the US Government's digital business transformation. NIST is establishing a Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group (MCSPWG) to research best practices for securing complex cloud solutions involving multiple service providers and multiple clouds.   The White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity highlights that “the Federal Government needs to make bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital...
Secure Federated Data Sharing SFDS
The ability to share database resources among collaborating organizations is highly desirable.  However, sharing data continues to be a challenge when it comes from different types of database management systems (DBMSs) due to different schemas and data formats.  Another challenge that is limiting collaboration is being able to enforce the home organizations local data protection policies while sharing data.  For example, can a patient’s condition details be shared with an outside research...