NIST's new cyber center ready for public-private insight

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http://fcw.com/articles/2012/07/02/nist-cyber-center-donna-dodson.aspx

By Camille Tuutti
FCW.com
July 02, 2012

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened the doors 
to a brand-new cybersecurity center of excellence to bring together 
experts from different sectors to create, test and implement 
cybersecurity solutions and promote their adoption.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence will be a hub where NIST 
researchers work with users and vendors from government, industry and 
academia on holistic cybersecurity approaches, Donna Dodson, chief of 
NIST's Computer Security Division and acting director of the new center, 
wrote in a June 29 post on the Commerce Department’s blog.

“By providing a test bed where new ideas and technologies can be tried 
out before being deployed, the center provides the opportunity to 
thoroughly document and share each solution, supporting specific 
industry sector business challenges,” Dodson wrote. “This will encourage 
the rapid adoption of comprehensive cybersecurity templates and 
approaches that support automated and trustworthy e-government and 
e-commerce.”

The center’s has three goals it hopes to achieve: increase trust in U.S. 
IT communications, data and storage systems; decrease the risk for users 
of IT systems; and foster the creation of innovative, job-creating 
cybersecurity products and services.

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