NIST plans to accelerate publication timelines for telework guides to assist amid pandemic

The COVID-19 pandemic is making leaders at the National Institute of Standards and Technology take a closer look at how they can turn around research on telework best practices and security controls in a faster time frame.

Typically, publications from NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence take a year to 18 months to build out, according to center director Jeff Greene, a former cyber leader at Symantec who joined the agency on Feb. 3. Based on feedback from conversations at...