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NIST seeks partners for cybersecurity challenges
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Date: Mon, 22 Oct 2012 01:51:26 -0500 (CDT)
http://fcw.com/articles/2012/10/19/nist-partnership.aspx By Camille Tuutti FCW.com Oct 19, 2012The federal agency tasked with developing measurements and standards is looking for companies to help solve pressing cybersecurity challenges in a new effort: the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships.
In an Oct. 12 Federal Register notice, the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Information Technology Laboratory calls on private-sector firms to submit letters of interest in collaborating in the National Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships.
The Federal Register notice appeared just days after a new report outlined how cyberattacks against U.S businesses and government have grown 42 percent in the past year. That research, released by the Ponemon Institute, also showed a lack of proactive security as being a major cause for the spike in attacks.
NCEP collaborators will be housed at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence in Rockville, Md., which opened its doors in June 2012 and acts as a hub for NIST researchers to collaborate with users and vendors from government, industry and academia on holistic cybersecurity approaches.
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