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• The final version of Profile of the IoT Core Baseline for Consumer IoT Products (NIST IR 8425). The public draft (June 2022) took the consumer IoT cybersecurity criteria from our February 2022 white paper on Recommended Criteria for Cybersecurity Labeling for Consumer Internet of Things (IoT) Products and formally incorporated them into NIST’s family of IoT cybersecurity guidance. This final version addresses feedback received by NIST on the June 2022 draft.

• Workshop Summary Report for “Building on the NIST Foundations: Next Steps in IoT Cybersecurity” (NIST IR 8431). This IR reviews the keynote presentations from our June 2022 virtual workshop, and identifies NIST’s key takeaways and next steps based on the workshop discussions and Q&A.

Last year some companies took a stand and decided not to allow political discussions at work. Regardless of your policy, 65% of employees are having the conversations. How can we support employees and encourage them to handle differences, respect one another, listen, and learn? The answer requires respecting others’ views, inviting different perspectives, and teaching others how to thoughtfully disagree with counterfactual data. These are the same tools you should be embracing to improve your corporate culture. Retreating to our ideological trenches and lashing out over social media will not improve things. For those interested in nuanced conversations I have compiled “Searching for Better” deck to look at some of our challenges along with a ” Better-Better” deck for some possible solutions.

It amazes me that REST is still the dominant API technology. As they say if it’s not broke don’t fix it. Check out the report for more insights.

If you love history, economics, and geopolitics these are great reads.