NIST Announces Meeting of ISPA Board 6-12-13

Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) published a public meeting notice in the Federal Register (78 FR 25254-25255) of the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board. The three day meeting will begin on June 12^th in Washington, D.C.

Agenda

The Board will address issues related to the President’s recent cybersecurity executive order (EO 13636) including:

• Executive Order 13636, Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity;

• Development of New Cybersecurity Framework;

• Request for Information (RFI)—Developing a Framework to Improve Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (78 FR 13024, February 26, 2013);

• Notice of Inquiry (NOI)—Incentives to Adopt Improved Cybersecurity Practices (78 FR 18954, March 28, 2013),

Additional items on the agenda include:

• DHS Information Sharing Update;

• DHS - investigative discussion on reducing required reporting;

• US-CERT changing reporting categories; and

• Update of NIST Computer Security Division.

Public Participation

There will be a 30-minute period for public comments (limited to 5 minutes each on a first-come, first-serve basis) on Friday morning. Written comments from the public may also be submitted via snail mail (and this is NIST?) to:

ISPAB Secretariat

Information Technology Laboratory

100 Bureau Drive, Stop 8930

National Institute of Standards and Technology

Gaithersburg, MD 20899-8930