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The Commerce Department’s budget request for fiscal 2016 includes 7 percent increase in cybersecurity funding at NIST to support research and standards development to protect the nation’s IT systems and critical infrastructure. The additional $7 million would help fund 10 new full…

The first two-and-a-half years of FedRAMP—the government’s program to jump-start adoption of cloud computing through blanket security authorizations for service providers—has been a success; but the Federal CIO Council has created a two-year roadmap to speed agency adoption of cloud services, increase…

The administration has produced guidelines for protecting the nation’s critical infrastructure—a voluntary risk-based framework that tells system owners and operators what they should do to manage cybersecurity risks. Research from Waverley Labs and the University of North Carolina at Charlotte has developed…