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NIST Seeks Comments On Data Security Project

Wednesday, November 25th, 2015

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NIST Seeks Comments On Data Security Project

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), through its National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE), is seeking comments on a new project to help organizations prepare for and recover from attacks that may compromise their data, the agency said Tuesday.The project, Data Integrity: Reducing the Impact of an Attack, is posted in draft whitepaper form at the NIST website. It is meant to help reduce the risk businesses face from destructive malware, ransomware, malicious insider threats, and even honest…

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