The Economic Development Administration (EDA), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the First Responder Network Authority (FirstNet Authority) announced the Accelerate R2 Network Challenge, an interagency challenge focused on accelerating innovations for disaster response and resilience technology. 

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) built a laboratory environment to demonstrate how energy organizations can strengthen their operational technology (OT) asset management practices by leveraging capabilities that may already exist within their operating environment or by implementing new capabilities.

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is seeking industry comments on its newly released draft guidance for corporate-owned personally enabled (COPE) mobile devices.

Seventy-four percent of unauthorized insider access to patient records was users’ household members and the second most common was accessing high profile (VIP/confidential) patient data, according to a 2019 Measuring Progress: Expanding the Horizon report. 

Bipartisan legislation has been introduced in the Senate and the House of Representatives to improve the cybersecurity of Internet-connected devices.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8196, Security Analysis of First Responder Mobile and Wearable Devices, a document that reviews the current and potential use cases of mobile and wearable devices by first responders and analyzes them from a cybersecurity perspective.