National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

On February 16, 2017, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence released its draft practice guide for electric utilities, entitled “Situational Awareness for Electric Utilities.”

The guide was developed to provide an example solution that can be used by electric utilities to alert staff to the potential for or an actual cyber-attack directed at the electric

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft Project Description for the manufacturing sector entitled: Capabilities Assessment for Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems.

According to the NCCoE, “Industrial Control Systems (ICS) monitor and control physical processes in many different industries and sectors, especially in manufacturing. A cyber attack directed at

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking comments on a draft practice guide, entitled “IT Asset Management (Special Publication 1800-5a)” which is “designed to help the financial services industry monitor and manage IT hardware and software assets more securely and efficiently.”

The guide helps companies bring separate data systems used for physical assets, security

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, in partnership with the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace National Program Office, have launched a project designed to embed privacy and security measures into identity broker solutions.

What is an identity broker? It is a third-party service provider that companies use to manage its multiple third-party credentialing

Yesterday, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence issued its NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide, Draft Special Publication 1800-2 “Identity and Access Management for Electric Utilities.”

The Guide is a result of collaboration between NIST and utilities stakeholders, including the energy sector and technology vendors, to design an example solution to help energy companies manage