NIST revised guidelines for securing sensitive data awaits OMB final review

By Maggie Miller / March 5, 2019 at 11:05 AM
The highly anticipated release of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's revised guidelines for "controlled unclassified information," which serve as the basis for defense contractor cybersecurity requirements, is awaiting completion of an interagency review being led by the White House Office of Management and Budget, a NIST official told Inside Cybersecurity on Monday. NIST Computer Scientist and Fellow Ron Ross said the interagency review of the second revision of NIST Special Publication 800-171 on protecting CUI would reach a...

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