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The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet June 28-30, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication 800-193,  Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines. The platform is a collection of fundamental hardware and firmware components needed to boot and operate a computer system.

NISTIR 8170 rovides guidance on how the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Framework) can be used in the U.S. Federal Government in conjunction with the current and planned suite of NIST security and privacy risk management publications.

As the world rapidly embraces the Internet of Things, properly securing medical devices has grown challenging for most healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs).......

SP 800-121 Rev. 2 has been approved as final & is now available.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published the "Study on Mobile Device Security," a report to Congress that details current and emerging threats to the Federal Government's use of mobile devices. It also recommends security improvements to the mobile device ecosystem.

NIST releases a draft whitepaper "Profiles for the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process".

Recent Cryptanalysis of FF3 - Special Publication 800-38G

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-190, Application Container Security Guide.

What is the current status of release of Draft Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5?  This news item will explain the current status of this document.

NISTIR 8114, Report on Lightweight Cryptography has been approved as final and is now available.

NIST's NCCoE invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for the Capabilities Assessment for Securing Manufacturing Industrial Control Systems. Participation is open to all interested organizations.

The Final Public Draft Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile is now available for public comment.

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet March 29-31, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

On Thursday, February 23rd, Google announced  that a team of researchers from the CWI Institute in Amsterdam and Google have successfully demonstrated an attack on the SHA-1 hash algorithm by creating two files that hash to the same value. 

NIST has launched a beta site for a new version of CSRC.nist.gov: https://beta.csrc.nist.gov.  It will be available alongside http://csrc.nist.gov for several months as we continue to fix issues, implement enhanced functionality, and migrate existing content. Your feedback is welcome!

NCCoE Released Draft Special Publication 1800-7, Situational Awareness for Electric Utilities for public comment.

NIST requests comments on a proposed update to the Framework for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the "Framework"). The proposed update to the Framework is available for review at http://www.nist.gov/​cyberframework.Comments are due April 10, 2017.

NIST solicits nominations for candidate algorithms to be considered for public-key post-quantum standards. Submission requirements and evaluation criteria are available at https://www.nist.gov/pqcrypto. Proposals must be received by November 30, 2017.

Special Publication 800-179 aims to assist IT professionals in securing Apple OS X 10.10 desktop and laptop systems within various environments. It provides detailed information about the security features of OS X 10.10...

NIST invites comments on Draft NIST SP 800-187, Guide to LTE Security. Cellular technology plays an increasingly large role in society as it has become the primary portal to the Internet for a large segment of the population. One of the main drivers making this change possible is the deployment ...

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-160, Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems. ...

NIST released NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals. NIST developed this interagency report as a reference guideline about cybersecurity for small businesses...

NIST is pleased to release the draft NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) - a reference resource that will allow our nation to more effectively identify, recruit, develop and maintain its cybersecurity talent...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-121 Revision 2 Guide to Bluetooth Security. This draft is the second revision to NIST SP 800-121, Guide to Bluetooth Security. Updates in this revision include an introduction to and discussion ...