NIST invites organizations to submit cyber hygiene products, expertise for securing IT systems

The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s cyber center is inviting organizations to submit “products and technical expertise” in support of a new “critical cybersecurity hygiene project,” with the goal of finding new tools to patch information technology systems.

In a notice published in the Federal Register today, NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence wrote that under a “Cooperative Research and Development Agreement,” groups would provide cyber products and expertise to “support and demonstrate security platforms” under NIST’s “Critical...