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NIST Announces Additional Pilot Projects for Trusted Identities Initiative

Defense Daily Staff

Wednesday, September 25th, 2013

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) last week and this announced new projects valued at about $10 million aimed at helping to develop more secure ways to conduct business online, building on existing pilot projects begun last year. Through its National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC), NIST is working with the private sector to accelerate the creation of an identity ecosystem by putting resources behind potential solutions that go from concepts and theories into an executed…

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