Staff Stories Spotlight Series: Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2024

This blog is part of a larger NIST series during the month of October for Cybersecurity Awareness Month , called 'Staff Stories Spotlight.' Throughout the month of October this year, Q&A style blogs will be published featuring some of our unique staff members who have interesting backgrounds, stories to tell, and projects in the world of cybersecurity. This year’s Cybersecurity Awareness Month theme is ‘Secure our World.’ How does this theme resonate with you, as someone working in cybersecurity? The theme ‘Secure our World’ resonates with me because I enjoy researching about cybersecurity

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[Image: Image of Jeff Marron]

#### Jeff Marron

Jeff Marron is an IT Specialist at NIST. He supports several NIST efforts, such as outreach to small- and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) regarding cybersecurity, cybersecurity for the Internet of Things (IoT), and smart grid cybersecurity. He previously supported the NIST Cybersecurity Framework project. Prior to joining NIST, Jeff spent over 10 years working in IT Security within the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS). Among other things, his work included conducting security engineering and integration work at the Food and Drug Administration (FDA). In the more distant past, Jeff was an elementary school teacher of English as a Second Language in Maryland schools.

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