The privacy framework is modeled after the widely adopted, 5-year-old NIST Cybersecurity Framework, a voluntary set of guidance aimed to help mitigate cyber risk. In developing the privacy framework, ...

Some federal and industry officials say the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s forthcoming Privacy Framework will help businesses develop better ...

Get the latest federal technology news delivered to your inbox. The Commerce Department division that developed a 2014 cybersecurity framework for industry will begin work on a privacy framework to ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering a new tool to help organizations manage privacy risks. Here's how it works. It was inevitable that once the European Union passed ...

Recognizing that protecting user data has become increasingly challenging due to pervasive cyberattacks, the U.S. Department of Commerce said it intends to align its ...

Our data-driven society has a tricky balancing act to perform: building innovative products and services that use personal data while still protecting people’s privacy. To help organizations keep this ...

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The government shutdown may have delayed the long-awaited final draft of the National Institute of Standards and Technology cybersecurity framework, mandated by President Barack Obama’s February ...

The Privacy Framework is being developed to be risk-based/outcome-based and non-prescriptive, unlike the GDPR. Data privacy has been thrust into the limelight with ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a fifth workshop in Raleigh, North Carolina last week on the comprehensive, preliminary cybersecurity framework mandated under President ...