The Awareness and Training family is the second family of requirements in the NIST 800-171 standard. This family covers the requirements that address how employees, contractors, or others on your IT system are educated on your cybersecurity policy and procedures....
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A Closer Look at NIST 800-171: The Access Control Family
The first of the fourteen families within the NIST 800-171 standard is Access Control. This family is all about who you authorize to view or access your assets and controlling how they are allowed to access your system. Why is Access Control important? All of us have...
A Cyber Story: Introducing Cyber Vocabulary and Common Pitfalls
What exactly is Cybersecurity? Explore cyber vocabulary terms and learn how compromised data can result in a loss from a unique cyber crime case study
Data Privacy Day— Protecting Personal Data
Today, January 28, is International Data Privacy Day. Each day, we share personal and private data. We share our personal data with our banks, our doctors, our employers, our schools, the companies we shop with and even our favorite online social networking sites....
Phishing—The Number One Cyber Attack Tool
Cybersecurity awareness is critical for everyone. Our actions and activities subject us to ever growing risks of a cybersecurity attack. People are the number one target that cybercriminals go after. The most favorite attack technique for cyber attackers is phishing....
Happy Anniversary MEP National Network
The North Carolina Manufacturing Extension Partnership (NCMEP), the official representative of the MEP National Network™ and NIST MEP in North Carolina, today celebrates the 30th anniversary of the MEP National Network. Since 1988, MEP centers in all 50 states...
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