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New NIST Advisory Board Chair Begins Term

Monday, May 2nd, 2016

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New NIST Advisory Board Chair Begins Term

Christopher Boyer, the new NIST Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board chairperson. Photo: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Christopher Boyer has become the new chairperson of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB), Under Secretary of Commerce for Standards and Technology and NIST Director Willie May said Friday.Boyer currently serves as assistant vice president for global public policy at AT&T Services, Inc. [T], responsible for the company’s strategic policy positions connected to cybersecurity.Starting May 1, Boyer succeeds chair Peter Weinberger. Boyer has served as an ISPAB board member since 2012…

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