
TAMPA, Fla.—The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) on Wednesday awarded $2.9 million in grants to three entities for additional pilot projects in support of an ongoing public-private partnership aimed at seeding the marketplace with solutions and standards for boosting online security and privacy. Confyrm received $1.2 million, Safran Group’s MorphoTrust USA unit $823,235 and GSMA $821,948 under the National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program that was launched by the Obama administration in 2011 and is…