Quick Hits

*** In a post on LinkedIn, Ron Ross of the National Institute of Standards and Technology teed up "bold changes" to the agency's flagship cybersecurity guidance, NIST SP 800-160. The revisions will reflect "the explosive growth of cyber-physical systems," Ross wrote. "The common ground we have discovered is that we are all engineering systems that must be designed for the emergent properties we wish to achieve and to control the behaviors and outcomes of those systems while under adversity."

*** Microsoft is reorganizing its federal team according to a report in ZDNet. Effective October 1, Microsoft's federal team will report up to company's Azure division.