Today’s blog is the second one in our 2023 Cybersecurity Awareness Month series and examines different factors associated with using strong passwords and a password manager. We interviewed NIST’s Yee-Yin Choong and Meghan Anderson to get their unique thoughts and insights. This week’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is ‘ using strong passwords and a password manager .’ How does your work/specialty area at NIST tie into this behavior? Yee-Yin: At NIST, I’ve been conducting research on human factors and the usability aspects of human-technology interactions. One research area is human

Perhaps you’ve been hearing about data analytics, which is being promoted as a way for even small businesses to analyze communications with customers, enhance customer experience, save money, and ultimately improve your brand. However, data analytics can have big privacy implications. You may think of managing privacy risk as protecting sensitive customer information, such as credit cards. As the Venn diagram to the right demonstrates, data security is certainly one aspect of privacy risk, but privacy risks can also arise by means unrelated to cybersecurity incidents. People can experience

As part of NIST’s 50 th anniversary of cybersecurity, this month’s blog post is centered on privacy at NIST. Since many of you have become familiar with the Privacy Engineering Program ’s popular Venn diagram showing the relationship between cybersecurity and privacy risks, let’s use it to show how NIST has expanded and matured its understanding of privacy over the last 50 years. If we go back in time to the 1960s, data privacy really came into focus when the growing use of computers created concerns about secret databases of people’s information. The report, Records, Computers, and the Rights