Special Publication 800-57, Part 3, Revision 1, Recommendation for Key Management, Part 3: Application-Specific Key Management Guidance, is intended primarily to help system administrators ...

NIST requests comments on a Second Public Draft of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7977, Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process. This revised document describes the principles, processes and...

NIST announces the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8018, Public Safety Mobile Application Security Requirements Workshop Summary. The purpose of this publication is to capture the findings of a half...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) proposes to withdraw six Federal Information Processing Standards from the FIPS series. The standards proposed for withdrawal are: FIPS 181, FIPS 185, FIPS 188...

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, February 11, 2015 - Friday, February 13, 2015. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-157, Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials. SP 800-157 defines a technical specification for implementing and deploying...

NIST requests comments on DRAFT Special Publication (SP) 800-152, A Profile for U.S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems. This Profile is based on NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-130, A Framework for...

Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1, Guidelines for Media Sanitization, has been approved as final. Media sanitization refers to a process that renders access to target data on the media infeasible for a given level...

Draft NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals; is now available for public comment. NIST, as a partner with the Small Business Administration and the Federal Bureau of...

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-53A, Revision 4, Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations: Building Effective Assessment Plans.

NIST requests your comments on the latest revision of Special Publication 800-90A, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators, which is dated November 2014. This...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (Initial Public Draft). 

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites and requests nomination of individuals for appointment to eight existing Federal Advisory Committees

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-150, Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing. The purpose of this publication is to assist organizations in establishing, participating...

NIST announces the public comment release of NIST DRAFT Special Publication 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment. Server Virtualization (enabled by Hypervisor) is finding widespread...

These 2 documents were approved as final at end of September - made available to CSRC website on September 30 - Special Publication 800-56B Revision 1 and NISTIR 7628 Revision 1

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, October 22, 2014 - Friday, October 24, 2014. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST announces the release of Draft NIST IR 8023, Risk Management for Replication Devices. For the purposes of this NISTIR, replication devices (RDs) include copiers, printers, three-dimensional (3D...

NIST announces the release of NIST Special Publication 800-147B, BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers. This guide is intended to mitigate threats to the integrity of fundamental system firmware, ...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Appendix H, International Information Security Standards, Security Control Mappings for ISO/IEC 27001: 2013. (NOTE: This draft ...

NIST requests information about the level of awareness throughout critical infrastructure organizations, and initial experiences with the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (the “Framework”).

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-167, Guide to Application Whitelisting. The purpose of this publication is to assist organizations in understanding the basics of...

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7966, Security of Automated Access Management Using Secure Shell (SSH). (NOTE: This draft & the 2nd draft has been approved as...

NIST announces that Draft Special Publication 800-163, Technical Considerations for Vetting 3rd Party Mobile Applications, is now available for public comment. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance...

NIST produced a revised version of NIST Special Publication SP 800-85B, PIV Data Model Conformance Test Guidelines. The revisions include additional tests necessary to test new features added to the PIV Data Model in...