A Primer on NIST 800-53 Rev.5, 800-53A, and 800-53B

NIST 800-53 Rev.5 aka Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations (provides a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations to protect organizational operations and assets, individuals, other organizations from threats and risks, including hostile attacks, human errors, natural disasters, structural failures, foreign intelligence entities, and privacy risks.  NIST…

Differential Privacy

These days companies are using more and more customer data to improve their products and services. On October 2, 2006, Netflix announced the $1 Million Prize for improving their movie recommendation algorithm. Netflix released an anonymous dataset containing movie ratings by 500,000 subscribers containing 100M ratings for 17,000 movies. Netflix asserted that all personally identifiable…