Updates on NIST’s Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group

Last November, I was pleased to chair the most recent meeting of the Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group (IICSWG) – a group NIST created in 2016. Our charge, from the Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014, was to build a coordination mechanism for government agencies to discuss international cybersecurity standardization issues, consistent with agencies’ responsibilities under OMB Circular A-119. Since then, IICSWG has grown as a forum to discuss cybersecurity and privacy standardization topics, examine the overall cybersecurity standardization landscape (

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[Image: Lisa Carnahan]

#### Lisa Carnahan

Lisa J. Carnahan, computer scientist, recently retired as the Associate Director for IT Standardization in the Information Technology Laboratory at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (ITL/NIST) and has rejoined the Office she created. The Office develops programmatic strategies for standards engagement, understanding potential standards opportunities in emerging technologies, and promoting the benefits of standards adoption in the federal government and industry. She convenes the US Interagency International Cybersecurity Standardization Working Group.

Previously she served as the lead for conformity assessment research and guidance activities in the Standards Coordination Office at NIST, where she co-authored updates to NIST’s key documents for understanding and applying conformity assessment concepts in the federal government.

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