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NTIA initiative on IoT security will focus on outreach, awareness of guidance documents

By Joshua Higgins / November 15, 2017

A public-private National Telecommunications and Information Administration initiative to develop guidelines for security patching and upgrading of Internet of Things has approved three guidance documents and will now shift focus to conducting outreach to raise awareness and increase adoption of the documents.

An NTIA spokesman told Inside Cybersecurity that the “multistakeholder” process met last week and approved two IoT patching guidance documents. Participants -- including government officials and representatives from industry and academia -- reached consensus on a “Voluntary Framework...


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