U.S. Sen. Ron Wyden, D-Ore., is urging the National Institute of Standards and Technology to create new standards and guidelines for securely sharing documents online. Wyden notes in a letter to NIST Director Walter Copan that government employees still send and receive sensitive documents over the internet using insecure methods, such as zip files, which are easily hacked even when password protected. The increasing number of data breaches, as well as nation-state attacks, point to the need to develop new standards, protocols and guidelines.”]
Source: https://www.cuinfosecurity.com/sen-wyden-asks-nist-to-develop-secure-file-sharing-standards-a-12686