ITL Newsletter October - December 2022

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October - December 2022 Newsletter

NIST Updates Guidance for Health Care Cybersecurity

NIST has been active in the cybersecurity realm since the very beginning, and this year has been a big one for us. We spent 2022 celebrating a major milestone: for 50 years, NIST—formerly the National Bureau of Standards (NBS), until 1988—has conducted research and developed guidance that has led to extraordinary advancements in cybersecurity. We take pride in our rich history and work to honor the tradition of fostering an open, transparent, and collaborative environment where we cultivate trust in technology. Our dynamic projects are of global importance because they help advance technology, cybersecurity and privacy standards and guidelines, and measurement science for all of us. We value success (and all of the learning and collaboration that comes along with it) and are very proud of these past five decades of work.

We have been up to quite a bit during our yearlong celebration—and we have shared our news and accomplishments with you via our dedicated 50^th anniversary blog series, our special events, and our anniversary website that includes videos, resources, and ways to stay in touch. We have also communicated with you via Twitter throughout the year and recently published a NIST Cybersecurity Program History and Timeline, which provides an overview of the major research projects, programs, and ultimately, NIST's cybersecurity history. Please continue to celebrate alongside us for the remainder of our anniversary (and for years to come); we are ready for 50 more years of innovation, collaboration, and accomplishments.

CULTIVATING TRUST IN IT AND METROLOGY

FEATURE STORIES

Biometric Standards for Law Enforcement

Border security, crime investigations, background checks, and access control all rely on certain organizations being able to seamlessly exchange biometric data such as fingerprints. NIST led the development of a standard that made this exchange possible by providing a common language and standardized format for biometric data and information about how it was collected.

Winners Announced in First Phase of UK-US Privacy-Enhancing Technologies Prize Challenges

The United Kingdom and the United States governments have announced the 12 winners of the first phase of the U.K.-U.S. privacy-enhancing technologies (PETs) prize challenges. Competing for cash prizes from a combined U.S.-U.K. prize pool of $1.6 million (£1.3 million), participants are developing solutions that will enable artificial intelligence models to be trained on sensitive data without organizations having to reveal, share, or combine their raw data. Winning challenge solutions will be showcased at the second Summit for Democracy, which President Joe Biden plans to convene in the first half of 2023. The U.S. challenge is funded and administered by the U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and the U.S. National Science Foundation (NSF).

STAFF SPOTLIGHT

NIST's Information Technology Image Group Was Recognized with the Service and Leadership Award at the 2022 Federal Identity Forum

Congratulations to the NIST Image Group for being nominated for the Service and Leadership team award for their substantive guidance and leadership to the federal identity community. Many of the group’s subject matter experts (SME’s) have been with the team for 15 years or more and all have made lasting positive changes to the federal community.

Raghu Kacker

Congratulations to Dr. Raghu Kacker, who was chosen as a named Fellow of the Washington Academy of Sciences in recognition for outstanding contributions in enabling the field of combinatorial testing to become a mainstream tool in measurement science and software engineering.