Government Information Security Podcast

Interview with Cita Furlani, NIST Information Technology Laboratory Director Think of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, and most people charged with safeguarding government IT assets think of NIST's information security guidance. But NIST's core strength lies in its long history of measurement and testing, and that should prove valuable as the federal government changes the way it evaluates IT security, from a process that focuses on agency and departmental compliance with regulations to one of measuring IT systems in real time to verify they're truly secure. "People think of us as only the standards, but you can't really have effective standards unless you can measure that you're meeting those standards, and measurement at NIST means testing," says Cita Furlani, director of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory in an interview with GovInfoSecurity.com. Furlani discusses not only how NIST is gearing up for changes in the way government will measure cybersecurity but the proposed reorg