The NIST publication provides some interesting statistics on the inventions that have emerged from federal laboratories.
Not directly, but the work of NIST to establish standards of security has been very helpful.
During 37 years at NIST, Wineland has made a number of major contributions to the field of physics.
At the NIST conference, Dr. Thomas Cynkin, VP and GM of Fujitsu Ltd.
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The agency is helping to develop federal guidelines for voting equipment, although it's not clear the NIST findings will be adopted.
According to NIST, this capability is an essential characteristic of cloud computing.
Dr Biercuk has posted details of the NIST experiments on arXiv, an electronic repository scientists use to share work before it appears in a refereed journal.
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DES, developed by IBM Corp. and adopted by NIST in 1977, has only one key size -- 56 bits, which is the length of the encryption algorithm.
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It instructs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Nist) to work with the relevant government agencies and industry bodies to draw up standards and practices to combat cyber threats.
In the meantime, NIST is recommending companies use Triple DES -- which involves three different DES operations to encrypt and decode -- if they feel DES is not secure enough, Smid said.
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Federal Chief Information Officer Vivek Kundra, speaking at a National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) event last May, said security, data portability and interoperability are key to the future success of cloud computing.
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If you work with a private sector company and would like to influence the development of this Cybersecurity framework, you need to be appraised of what NIST is doing as a result of this EO.
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Ever since 2009 when NIST published its first definition of cloud computing there has been a promise of community clouds, and now we finally have a second one in the financial services market, thanks to NYSE Technologies.
In his February State of the Union address, President Obama announced the creation of three hubs for manufacturing innovation, which will be overseen by the departments of Defense and Energy, with funding identified, said a spokesperson for the NIST.
National Network for Manufacturing Innovation (NNMI): This federal-government initiative originated in early 2012, when President Obama proposed it, said a spokesperson for the National Institutes of Standards and Technology (NIST), which has been working to develop the plans, she said.
Indeed, the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) components of the Department of Commerce are already developing their own policies, which will complement the overarching policy that Commerce has already developed for all of its components.
Going forward, Executive Departments and Agencies must accept approved externally-issued credentials when they are upgrading or developing Level 1 websites (as defined by OMB Memorandum 04-04 and NIST SP 800-63) that allow members of the public and business partners to register or log on.
The ATOs are processed in accordance with NIST 800-37 and 800-53 (rev 3) and can be accepted by any federal agency for cloud storage, virtual machines, and web hosting at the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) Moderate Impact Level or lower.
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Smid noted that NIST's public contest to find the next generation encryption standard is a radical change from the government's previously closed procedure for adopting DES. "It's a breakthrough in the way the government and the public sector are coming up with a standard, " he said.
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For example, there are 189 ISO standards for information security, our National Institute of Standards and Technology ( NIST) has produced a full set of world-class materials on information security, and the Information Systems Audit and Control Association ( ISACA) has developed its best practices, the Control Objectives for Information Technology ( CobiT).
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