Cybersecurity labels for consumer products could be on the way

“Other consumer labeling programs that were successful, it’s not a nine month or one year kind of a timeline,” Warren Merkel, NIST’s chief of standards services, told me. “It’s a much longer time to get the consumer education right and to get the awareness right. So, hopefully, we’ll be successful in providing a jumping in point for somebody to get on that multiyear path.”