News & Updates

Draft NISTIR 8403, “Blockchain for Access Control Systems,” is open for comment through February 7, 2022.

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a second draft of NISTIR 8355, NICE Framework Competencies: Assessing Learners for Cybersecurity Work. 

NIST announces the release of a major update to Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, Revision 1, "Developing Cyber-Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft project description, Secure IPv6-Only Implementation in the Enterprise.

A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, Combination Frequency Differencing, is now available for public comment.

NIST has released final IoT-specific guidance (NIST Special Publications 800-213 and 800-213A) to federal organizations to support extending their risk management process to the inclusion of IoT devices in federal systems.

Two draft publications on enterprise patch management are available for public comment through January 10, 2022: Draft SP 800-40 Rev. 4 and Draft SP 1800-31.

NISTIR 8286A, Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management, provides an in-depth discussion of the concepts introduced in NISTIR 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

A second public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-161 Revision 1, "Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations," is open for comment through December 10, 2021.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released three new draft reports on hardware-enabled security and trusted cloud for public comment.

Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-108 Revision 1, "Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions," is available for public comment through January 18, 2022.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-218, "Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities," is open for comment through Nov. 5, 2021.

NIST just released Special Publication (SP) 800-214, 2020 Cybersecurity and Privacy Program Annual Report.

This white paper highlights a recent mapping effort between the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

NIST has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-204C, "Implementation of DevSecOps for a Microservices-based Application with Service Mesh." The public comment period is open through November 1, 2021.

A new SP 800-53 controls Public Comment Site is now available for interacting with, downloading, and submitting security and privacy controls, baselines, and assessments.

NIST plans to revise Special Publication (SP) 800-50 and potentially consolidate it with NIST SP 800-16 to create SP 800-50 Revision 1, "Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Awareness and Training Program." A call for comments is open through November 5, 2021.

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-32, Securing the Industrial Internet of Things: Cybersecurity for Distributed Energy Resources.

NIST has published NISTIR 8360, "Machine Learning for Access Control Policy Verification."

Three NIST Special Publications are being withdrawn, effective immediately: SP 800-15, SP 800-25, and SP 800-32.

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8374, "Ransomware Risk Management," is open through October 8, 2021

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is open through October 15, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-34 Volume B, and the comment period is open through September 29, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description on "Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk in Telehealth Smart Home Integration." The public comment period is open through October 4, 2021.

A new publication identifier syntax for all NIST Technical Series publications is being proposed. Comments on the proposal are welcome through September 30, 2021.

NIST has published NISTIR 8259B, "IoT Non-Technical Supporting Capability Core Baseline," to complement the technical abilities defined in NISTIR 8259A, "Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline."

NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-13, "Mobile Application Single Sign-On: Improving Authentication for Public Safety First Responders," is now available.

NIST has posted three draft revisions of SP 800-140C/D/F, specifying CMVP Validation Authority updates to ISO/IEC 24759, for public comment. The comment period closes September 20, 2021.

As part of a periodic review of its cryptography standards and NIST Special Publications, NIST is requesting comments on FIPS 198-1, SP 800-22 Rev. 1a, SP 800-38D, SP 800-38E, and SP 800-107 Rev. 1. Comments are due by October 1, 2021.

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-204B, "Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications using a Service Mesh."

A public comment period is open through September 20, 2021, for Draft Special Publication 800-160 Volume 2, Revision 1, "Developing Cyber-Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

A new draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper on "Planning for a Zero Trust Architecture" is available for comment through September 3, 2021.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final project description for "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography."

NIST is proposing to withdraw Special Publications (SP) 800-15, SP 800-25, and SP 800-32. Please submit public comments by September 3, 2021.

Draft NIST Special Publication 800-53A Revision 5, "Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations," is available for comment through October 1, 2021.

NISTIR 8319, "Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard," provides a technical and editorial review of Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 197, "Advanced Encryption Standard (AES)."

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final Project Description on data classification practices.

NISTIR 8369 describes the evaluation process and selection process used during the second round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process. Ten finalists were announced in March 2021.

NIST has published SP 800-47 Revision 1, "Managing the Security of Information Exchanges."

A second public draft of NISTIR 8286A is available: "Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management." The comment period is open through August 6, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final Project Description for "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)."

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8270, "Introduction to Cybersecurity for Commercial Satellite Operations." The public comment period is open through August 13, 2021.

A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, "Combinatorial Coverage Difference Measurement," is now available. The public comment period is open through August 20, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has finalized NISTIR 8320A, "Hardware-Enabled Security: Container Platform Security Prototype."

NIST's NCCoE has released Draft NISTIR 8335, "Identity as a Service for Public Safety." The public comment period ends August 2, 2021.

NIST's OSCAL 1.0.0 provides a stable release for wide-scale implementation.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8336, "Background on Identity Federation Technologies for the Public Safety Community." The public comment period ends July 26, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Preliminary Draft NISTIR 8374, "Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Ransomware Risk Management." The public comment period is open through July 9, 2021.

NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-216, "Recommendations for Federal Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines." The public comment period is open through August 9, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description, "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography." The public comment period is open through July 7, 2021.

Draft NISTIR 8334, "Using Mobile Device Biometrics for Authenticating First Responders," is available for public comment through July 19, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8320, "Hardware-Enabled Security: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security for Cloud and Edge Computing Use Cases." The public comment period is open through June 30, 2021.

NIST has published a new Cybersecurity Practice Guide, NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-15, "Securing Small-Business and Home Internet of Things (IoT) Devices: Mitigating Network-Based Attacks Using Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD)."

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has published a final Project Description on "Trusted IoT Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management. This project will result in a NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide.

The NCCoE has released a draft project description on "Data Classification Practices: Facilitating Data-Centric Security." The public comment period is open through June 21, 2021.

NIST Seeks Comments on a draft white paper, “Establishing Confidence in IoT Device Security: How do we get there?” The comment period is open through June 14, 2021.

As part of a periodic review of its cryptography standards and NIST Special Publications, NIST is requesting comments on FIPS 197, SP 800-38A (and Addendum), SP 800-15, SP 800-25, and SP 800-32. Comments are due by June 11, 2021.

Comments Sought on Updates to Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations (Draft NIST SP 800-161, Revision 1)

The NCCoE has released a second draft of SP 1800-30, "Securing Telehealth Remote Patient Monitoring Ecosystem." The public comment period is open through June 7, 2021.

NIST has posted a call for comments on NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-66 Revision 1, An Introductory Resource Guide for Implementing the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act (HIPAA) Security Rule. The comment period is open through July 9, 2021.

NIST has posted Draft NIST SP 800-161 Rev. 1, "Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations." The public comment period is open through June 14, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has published "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Exploring Challenges Associated with Adopting and Using Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms."

NIST has released Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-172A, "Assessing Enhanced Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information." Public comments are due June 11, 2021.

Draft NISTIR 8356, "Considerations for Digital Twin Technology and Emerging Standards," is now available for public comment through June 16, 2021.

The NCCoE is requesting comments on a new Draft Project Description, "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)." Public comments may be submitted through May 12, 2021.

NIST has published NISTIR 8212, "An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment," and the ISCMAx tool that implements the ISCM program assessment described in SP 800-137A.

NIST's NCCoE has published Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-27, "Securing Property Management Systems."

A new draft NISTIR 8310, "Cybersecurity Framework Election Infrastructure Profile," is available for public comment through May 14, 2021.

Ten finalists are moving to the final round of the Lightweight Cryptography Standardization process.

Version 2 of test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards now available.

Draft NISTIR 8360, "Machine Learning for Access Control Policy Verification," is available for comment through May 7, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-22, "Mobile Device Security: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)." The public comment period is open through May 17, 2021.

Draft NISTIR 8355, "NICE Framework Competencies: Assessing Learners for Cybersecurity Work," is available for comment through May 3, 2021.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a Draft Project Description on Trusted IoT Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management. The public comment period is open through April 21, 2021.

The NCCoE is requesting comments on a new Draft Project Description, "Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3." Public comments may be submitted through March 29, 2021.

NIST announces the publication of NISTIR 8276, Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from Industry.

NIST publishes NISTIR 8323, "Foundational PNT Profile: Applying the Cybersecurity Framework for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT) Services," in response to Executive Order 13905 of Feb. 12, 2020.

NIST has published NISTIR 8301, "Blockchain Networks: Token Design and Management Overview."

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8344, "Ontology for Authentication," for public comment. Please submit your comments by April 9, 2021.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-172, "Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication 800-171"

A preliminary draft of SP 1800-33A, "5G Cybersecurity," is available for comment through March 4, 2021.

Draft SP 800-204B, "Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh," is available for comment through February 24, 2021.

New supplemental materials are available for SP 800-53 Rev. 5 and SP 800-53B: spreadsheets for the Control Catalog and Control Baselines.

Draft NIST SP 800-47 Revision 1, "Managing the Security of Information Exchanges," is now available for public comment through March 12, 2021.

NIST publishes NISTIR 8322, Workshop Summary Report for “Building the Federal Profile for IoT Device Cybersecurity” Virtual Workshop.