New privacy controls for federal information systems and organizations proposed by NIST

National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has issued a new draft document that adds privacy controls to the catalog of security controls used to protect federal information and information systems. The increasing dependency on information systems — and advances in cloud computing, the smart grid and mobile computing – have made maintaining the confidentiality and integrity of citizens’ personally identifiable information a growing challenge.

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