You might not know it, but NIST SP 800–53 Revision 5 is everywhere. It’s the foundation beneath much of modern cybersecurity. If you work with federal systems, you know it well. If you work in private ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) SP 800-53 provides a unified information security framework to achieve information system security and effective risk ...

Standards play a critical role in information assurance. Given the impossibility of defining a deterministic model that includes billions of users, millions of computers, and thousands of programs and ...

Recent cyberattacks such as the MOVEit data breach have affected several federal agencies in the United States, leaving them exposed and struggling to fortify their security defenses. This included ...

After many years of being in draft form, NIST recently released its final version of Revision 5 of Special Publication 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publication (SP) SP 800-53 provides a unified information security framework to achieve information system security and effective risk ...

SP 800-53, Revision 4 also takes a more holistic approach to information security and risk management. The publication calls for maintaining "cybersecurity hygiene"—the routine best practices that ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in partnership with the Department of Defense (DOD), the Intelligence Community (IC), and the Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS), ...

Does your organization need NIST, CSC, ISO, or FAIR frameworks? Here’s how to start making sense of security frameworks. Cybersecurity professionals often face the curse of knowledge–understanding so ...

Contractors and other organizations that do business with the federal government now have clearer, more straightforward guidance for protecting the sensitive data they handle. These guidelines require ...