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New NIST Guidance to Help Organizations Better Assess Risk, Allocate Resources

July 10, 2017

Your business operates on a tight budget. Your sales team complains of old cell phones with inadequate data plans; your desktop computers are no longer supported by the manufacturer and spare parts are hard to find; and replacement hardware purchased on the aftermarket could contain viruses. The...

NIST Seeks Comments on Growing, Sustaining the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce

July 10, 2017

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), is seeking Information, ideas, and views about the scope and sufficiency of efforts to educate and train the nation’s workforce to meet current and future private and public sector...

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Scientists Lay the Groundwork for a Reliable Marijuana Breathalyzer

July 05, 2017

One reason it is difficult to design a reliable marijuana breathalyzer is that delta-9 tetrahydrocannabinol (THC), the primary psychoactive compound in marijuana, is a large molecule with a complex structure. Ethyl alcohol is more easily measured with a breathalyzer. In these images, carbon atoms...

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New NIST Guidance to Help Organizations Better Assess Risk, Allocate Resources

NIST Seeks Comments on Growing, Sustaining the Nation’s Cybersecurity Workforce

Scientists Lay the Groundwork for a Reliable Marijuana Breathalyzer

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