The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host a free webinar in January to showcase developments in the role of privacy professionals, and provide details on the agency’s updates in taxonomy and lexicon for the privacy profession.
The webinar will offer updates about NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program, which is now developing a Privacy Workforce Taxonomy aligned with the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework). In 2017, the framework was published as NIST Special Publication 800-181, prompting input from the community with requests to include privacy education, training, and workforce as part of the responsibilities of the cybersecurity-related workforce.
In the seven years since the framework’s publication, the privacy profession has continued to mature and evolve in ways that demonstrate the connections—and distinctions—between the roles of privacy and cybersecurity professionals.
NIST’s webinar will detail plans for Data Privacy Week (January 27-31), showcase developments in the role of privacy professionals and their relationship to cybersecurity, and introduce the draft task, knowledge, and skills statements designed to create a common taxonomy and lexicon for the privacy profession.
Register for the webinar, to be held on January 15 from 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., via NIST’s website.