The privacy framework is modeled after the widely adopted, 5-year-old NIST Cybersecurity Framework, a voluntary set of guidance aimed to help mitigate cyber risk. In developing the privacy framework, ...

Recognizing that protecting user data has become increasingly challenging due to pervasive cyberattacks, the U.S. Department of Commerce said it intends to align its ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is offering a new tool to help organizations manage privacy risks. Here's how it works. It was inevitable that once the European Union passed ...

On April 14, 2025, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) released draft updates to the NIST Privacy Framework, designed to address current ...

The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has updated its Privacy Framework to better align with its Cybersecurity Framework as the two become ...

In January 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology released Version 1.0 of its Privacy Framework: a voluntary tool aimed at helping organizations ...

Some federal and industry officials say the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s forthcoming Privacy Framework will help businesses develop better ...

Phil Goldstein is a former web editor of the CDW family of tech magazines and a veteran technology journalist. He lives in Washington, D.C., with his wife and their animals: a dog named Brenna, and ...

Our data-driven society has a tricky balancing act to perform: building innovative products and services that use personal data while still protecting people’s privacy. To help organizations keep this ...

As it begins planning to revise its widely praised Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has requested that interested parties supply comments on how ...

AI success depends on whether enterprise data is ready, reachable, and close enough to the workloads that need it. In this eSpeaks episode, Dell Technologies’ Vrashank Jain explains why fragmented ...

On January 16, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released version 1.0 of its Privacy Framework: A Tool for Privacy ...