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House Panel Would Give NIST Oversight Role For Federal Cyber Security

Tuesday, March 7th, 2017

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Over the objections of most Democrats on the panel, the House Science Committee on March 1 passed a measure that would require a federal standards and measurement agency to lead an effort to assess how well other federal agencies are implementing an existing framework of cyber security best practices and also audit the effectiveness of the framework across the government.The NIST Cybersecurity Framework, Assessment, and Auditing Act of 2017 (H.R. 1224) also calls for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)…

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