NIST faces challenge to bridge divide on integrating cybersecurity with upcoming privacy framework

Two days of talks this week with industry and other stakeholders did more to illuminate a divide, rather than reveal a consensus approach, on how to integrate widely used cybersecurity practices into an upcoming privacy framework from the National Institute of Standards and Technology.

NIST will be working over the next few weeks to revise its draft plan for a privacy framework, and the agency faces a major challenge in trying to reconcile arguments for two distinct approaches for aligning...