The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released an official definition of what the federal government will regard as “critical software,” — a key, early stage step to ...

On June 2 and 3, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) held a workshop focused on the President’s recent Executive Order on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity (Order) during ...

Following a string of high-profile supply chain hacks, President Biden’s wide-ranging executive order on cybersecurity (EO) issued on May 12 directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology ...

Cybersecurity labels could convey a software product's or connected gadget's cybersecurity status. But would these labels be useful, and what is a software product anyway in connected cars and ...

On July 26, 2024, the National Institute for Standards and Technology (“NIST”), part of the Department of Commerce, released guidelines, a global engagement plan, and software covering various aspects ...

The new guidance aims to tighten security requirements for federally purchased software and give consumers better insight into the security of software and devices they buy. On February 4, the ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs by more efficiently finding flaws. A ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's new definition of "critical software" is foundational to new federal efforts to exert more control over the code supply chain. CISA Contracts NIST ...

Combinatorial testing is a method for more effective software testing that the National Institute of Science and Technology (NIST) likes a lot. They ran studies from 1999 to 2004 showing that most ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced today that it has added gaming software to its National Software Reference Library (NSRL), a database of the world's most ...

Anne Rawland Gabriel is a freelance journalist who specializes in business technology. She is a frequent contributor to the CDW family of technology magazines. The National Institute of Standards and ...