Cybersecurity
NTIA’s cybersecurity multistakeholder processes, conducted in an open and transparent manner, contribute to the security of the nation’s Internet architecture. The consensus-based development of market-based cybersecurity solutions and guidance creates a foundation for increasing digital security. Recent processes include:
- Software component transparency -- creating guidance for the use of a “Software Bill of Materials,” which functions as a list of ingredients that make up software components
- Internet of Things security – addressing key aspects of IoT security, including upgradability and patchability of connected devices
- Cybersecurity vulnerability disclosures – increasing collaboration between security researchers and software and system developers and owners
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Remarks at Cybersecurity Event with White House Cybersecurity Coordinator Howard Schmidt
I want to thank our hosts today, TechAmerica, TechNet, the Churchill Club, Stanford University, and the TRUST Center.
And I want to thank all of you for joining us this morning.
There may be some other people here, who, like me, can remember when Time’s “Man of the Year” was a personal computer, and, according to reports, most of that story was composed on a typewriter.
That was in 1982, well before terms like “cyberspace” and “virtual reality” and “social networking” would enter the popular lexicon.
Comments on the Internet Policy Task Force Cybersecurity Green Paper
Comments received in Response to Federal Register Notice 110527305-1303-02 are posted on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's website at http://www.nist.gov/itl/greenpapercomments.cfm
Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy Green Paper
This report follows a series of recent Internet security policy recommendations made by the Obama administration. In order to gather additional stakeholder input and refine this report’s preliminary recommendations, the Commerce Department will seek public comment and publish questions from the report in a Federal Register notice. The Commerce Department’s Internet Policy Task Force will also continue to work with others in government to engage the domestic and global privacy community, and will consider publishing a refined set of policy recommendations in the future.
The full report, including questions seeking additional stakeholder input, can be found on the NIST web site, http://www.nist.gov/itl/upload/Cybersecurity_Green-Paper_FinalVersion.pdf