The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking information on the scope and sufficiency of efforts to educate and train the nation’s cybersecurity workforce and recommendations for ways to support and improve that workforce in both the public and private sectors. Responses to a request for information (RFI) are due Aug. 2.

Motorola Solutions Venture Capital led $8 million in series D financing to Nok Nok Labs (NNL), an authentication provider and a founding member of the Fast IDentity Online (FIDO) Alliance. All existing NNL investors, including DCM Ventures, DDS, DOCOMO Innovations, Korea Information Certificate Authority, Lenovo Group and ONSET Ventures, participated in the financing.

Lawmakers introduced legislation to combat cyber attacks and cyber crime against U.S. computer networks. The Promoting Good Cyber Hygiene Act instructs the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in consultation with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to establish a baseline set of voluntary best practices for good cyber hygiene that are made available online.

The House Subcommittee on Communications and Technology held a hearing examining cybersecurity risks to wireless technologies with a particular focus on wireless networks and mobile devices.

At the Civil Protection Center in Palmanova, Italy, the research project Establish a Pan-European Information Space to Enhance seCurity of Citizens (EPISECC), funded by the European Community’s Seventh Framework Program (FP7), demonstrated information technology to enable interoperability between public-safety agencies.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) announced a new board. Rob McMullen was sworn in as president of the board of directors.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) Science and Technology Directorate’s (S&T) Small Business Innovation Research (SBIR) program awarded $1.3 million to 12 small businesses for 13 phase one contract awards to develop technology solutions to homeland-security challenges.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) released fiscal year (FY) 2017 notices of funding opportunity for 10 DHS preparedness grant programs totaling more than $1.6 billion.

The National Emergency Number Association (NENA) warned of a widely reported ransomware attack affecting both private- and public-sector enterprises in multiple countries.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) submitted a report to Congress that details current and emerging threats to the federal government’s use of mobile devices and recommends security improvements within the mobile device ecosystem.