NIST Establishes National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence

To help organizations better protect themselves from cyber threats, the Commerce Department’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announced a new partnership to establish the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence.

The Center will operate as a public-private collaboration for accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools and technologies. The State of Maryland and Montgomery County (MD) are co-sponsoring the Center with NIST, which will work to strengthen U.S. economic growth by supporting automated and trustworthy e-government and e-commerce. NIST’s fiscal year 2012 appropriations provided $10 million to establish the public-private partnership to operate the center. It will include a state-of-the-art computing facility near NIST’s headquarters campus, where researchers from NIST will work with both the users and vendors of cybersecurity products and services. The center will host multi-institutional, collaborative efforts that build on expertise from industry and government.