NIST planning workshop on adapting core IoT security baseline for federal procurement

GAITHERSBURG, MD. The National Institute of Standards and Technology is moving to the next phase in fulfilling its requirements under a roadmap for mitigating the threat of botnet attacks, which calls for specifying an IoT security capability baseline for federal procurement of IoT devices.

“We probably are going to be holding a workshop later in the year focusing on that discussion,” said Katerina Megas, NIST’s program manager for the agency’s Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things program, referring to how...