The standards request is part of a larger White House initiative to explore the potential of artificial intelligence in federal agencies and the country as a whole.
And throwing money at the problem won't help, the National Institute of Standards and Technology's fellow said during an interview at the RSA Federal Summit.
“We got a lot of negative email on that,” confirmed Ron Ross a fellow at NIST that focuses on cybersecurity, systems security engineering, and risk management.
As President Donald Trump and congressional Democrats continue to feud over spending for a border wall and parts of the federal government remain shutdown, some of the federal government’s cybersecurity community remains out of commission.
The new guideline gives more than 100 requirements for companies and agencies to test whether they can work with controlled, but unclassified information.
The new version 1.1 features updates to authentication and identity, self-assessing cyber risk, managing cybersecurity within the supply chain and vulnerability disclosure.