2018 - Page 3 of 3 - The Networking and Information Technology Research and Development (NITRD) Program

“FRAMEWORK FOR IMPROVING CRITICAL INFRASTRUCTURE CYBERSECURITY” – MATTHEW BARRETT

(March 22, 2018)

NEWS

With increasing reliance on technology, businesses are increasingly transitioning from trust to digital trust models. This transition has been hindered by the lack of a common language for understanding, managing, and expressing cybersecurity risk inside and outside of organizations. The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (“The Framework”) was published in February 2014 to provide a common cybersecurity risk management language, as well as a common approach. The Framework can be used to help identify and prioritize actions for reducing cybersecurity risk, and is a tool for aligning policy, business, and technological approaches to managing that risk.

NITRD NEWSLETTER – JANUARY 2018

(January 16, 2018)

“The NITRD Program will be essential in helping our Nation achieve a brighter future through advances in information technology (IT). Evidence of this is seen in past Federal IT R&D, which led to technologies that help us today (e.g. the Internet, Global Positioning System, and smartphone assistants). Current Federal IT R&D is creating a world of personalized learning, personalized healthcare, and computers capable of answering any technical question… The U.S. government has a decades-long record of helping to achieve a brighter future with advanced IT through two roles: leading the world’s IT advancement through aggressive funding of IT R&D, and leading the use of IT for social good, as evidenced by recent NITRD area strategic plans, which seek societal interests as well as technology advancement…” – Dr. Bryan Biegel (Director of the National Coordination Office for Networking and Information).”