NIST eyes research projects on protecting data and breach recovery, seeks public comment

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking public comment on two proposed research projects for protecting data confidentiality, which can often indicate a system breach.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence is “proposing two projects to provide guidance and reference architectures that will assist organizations in identifying and protecting information from threats to data confidentiality and in detecting, recovering from, and responding to data breaches,” according to an announcement Monday.

NIST is seeking comments by July 29 to...