Meet Steve Lipner: New ISPAB chairman points to British IoT baselines as a good example

Steve Lipner, the new chair of a National Institute of Standards and Technology advisory panel on information security and privacy, is weighing in on a debate that pits “frameworks” against “baselines,” saying the latter could be appropriate for securing devices on the emerging internet of things.

“I like the framework model because it adapts well to the variations in technologies and applications. My impression is that experience with the NIST cybersecurity framework for critical infrastructure has been very good,” Lipner,...