NIST Announces Cybersecurity Commission Meeting – 5-16-16

Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology published a meeting notice in the Federal Register (81 FR 27414-27415) for a public meeting of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity. The meeting will take place in New York City on May 16^th, 2016. The Commission was established by Executive Order 131718.

The agenda for this meeting of the Commission includes:

• Panel discussion on the cybersecurity challenges and opportunities in the finance sector;

• Panel discussion on the cybersecurity challenges and opportunities in the insurance sector; and

• Panel discussion on cybersecurity research and development in the finance sector.

As with the earlier meeting of the Commission, there will be a brief period reserved for public comments. Written comments on the topics listed may be submitted to the Commission. The meeting notice only provides a snail mail address for submitting comments, but there is an email address (cybercommission@nist.gov) provided on the Commission web site.

That web site also provides a list of the Commissioners, something that was missing the last time that I mentioned the Commission. As I suspected, they are all Very Important People. I hope that they have hired a good staff to actually get the work done in time for their December report.