The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a draft taxonomy of the cybersecurity workforce and it shows functions divided into seven broad categories of jobs - securely provision, operate and maintain, protect and defend, investigate, operate and collect, analyze, and support.
The National Information Standards Organization (NISO) announced the publication of a new Recommended Practice, ESPReSSO: Establishing Suggested Practices Regarding Single Sign-On (NISO RP-11-2011).
The computer industry standards organization OMG and the Healthcare Information and Management Systems Society (HIMSS) are working together on standards development, conferences and other resources.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommends a common semantical understanding of data elements to implement the Smart Grid. In draft version 2.0 of its framework and roadmap for Smart Grid interoperability standards, NIST proposed a conceptual model of the Smart Grid. A Smart Grid truly operating as envisioned is heavily dependent on the consistency of semantic models.
One of the common challenges for data and tool integration is how complex biological data can be due to its inter-connectivity. With no standards or processes widely adopted, this left little hope for improvement in the situation. However, recent attempts have focused on the use of semantics to assist integration, and Semantic Web technologies are being welcomed by this community.
There are a lot of issues with implementing taxonomies – designing, building, and of course the technical swarm of terms. These challenges are typically what get all the attention and focus. What is quite often forgotten and of equal importance, if not more, is governance.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has launched a cloud computing standards road map and a cloud reference architecture to help guide federal agencies to cloud computing technologies.