Barrett, NIST's cybersecurity framework manager, outlines goals for upcoming Baltimore conference

The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Matthew Barrett is underscoring a series of goals for a highly anticipated cybersecurity conference, telling Inside Cybersecurity in an exclusive interview that NIST is working toward “aligned and harmonized” cyber strategies for industry and government and that the upcoming event represents an evolution of NIST-sponsored engagements on cyber.

The “NIST Cybersecurity Risk Management Conference” takes place Nov. 7-9 in Baltimore, and will fold what used to be known as the annual conference...