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The federal government produces nothing so much as data, mountains of data every minute. And much of this information is in the form of controlled but unclassified information known as CUI. Now the National Institute of Standards and Technology has established a special guide to protecting CUI. Federal Drive with Tom Temin talked to the acting manager of NIST’s security, engineering and risk management group, Vicki Pillitteri, to find out what every data owner needs to know.
Tom Temin: Ms. Pillitteri, good to have you on.
Vicki Pillitteri: Thank you so much for having me here with you today, Tom.
Tom Temin: Now we all know and love the Special Publications 800 series that have been published for many years by NIST is 800-172 Regarding CUI, a revision, or has this one been around for a while, like the rest of them?
Vicki Pillitteri: Well, 800-172 was released last year in February of 2021. So it is relatively new. And this is the first time we’ve issued a Special Publication 800-172, the enhanced security requirements for…
