News & Updates

NIST is requesting comments on Draft NISTIR 8286, "Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)." The public comment period closes April 20, 2020.

NISTIR 8170, "Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework," provides guidance on how to use the NIST Cybersecurity Framework in federal agencies, in conjunction with the current and planned suite of...

NIST has released the Final Public Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Revision 5, "Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations," for public comment. Comments are due by May 29, 2020.

NIST is soliciting comments on Draft NISTIR 8272, "Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks." The public comment period ends April 17, 2020.

Draft SP 800-133 Revision 2, "Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation," is available for comment. The comment period closes April 17, 2020.

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8183 Rev. 1, "Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1 Manufacturing Profile," for public comment. Comments are due by May 4, 2020.

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education, led by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is pleased to announce the NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8287: A Roadmap for....

NIST has published Revision 2 of Special Publication 800-171, "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations."

A second public draft of NIST SP 800-207, "Zero Trust Architecture," is available for comment. The comment period closes March 13, 2020.

NIST solicits feedback on Draft NISTIR 8246, National Vulnerability Database (NVD) Metadata Submission Guidelines for Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures (CVE) Numbering Authorities (CNAs) and Authorized Data Publishers....

NIST is initiating an update of Special Publication (SP) 800-161, "Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems and Organizations," seeking preliminary comments on possible clarifications, additions,...

Draft NISTIR 8276, "Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from Industry” is available for comment; the comment period closes March 4, 2020.  Six new Case Studies in Cyber SCRM are also available,...

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8278, "National Cybersecurity Online References (OLIR) Program: Guidance for OLIR Users and Developers." Public comments are due by February 24, 2020.

NIST has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-204A, "Building Secure Microservices-based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture," for comment. The public comment period ends February 14, 2020.

NIST has published the Cybersecurity White Paper "A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems."

NIST has released Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-137A, "Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: Developing an ISCM Program Assessment." Public comments are due by February 28, 2020.

NIST has released the second public draft of NISTIR 8259, "Recommendations for IoT Device Manufacturers: Foundational Activities and Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline." The public comment period ends February 7,...

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-189, "Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation," which superseded SP 800-54, "Border Gateway Protocol Security."

NIST has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-208, "Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes." The public comment period ends February 28, 2020.

NIST has released Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, "Developing Cyber Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8011 Volume 4, "Automation Support for Security Control Assessments: Software Vulnerability Management," for public comment.  The comment period ends December 20, 2019.

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8214A, "Towards NIST Standards for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives: A Preliminary Roadmap," for public comment. The comment period closes February 10, 2020.

Digital signature algorithms and elliptic curves: NIST is requesting comments on two drafts that specify digital signature algorithms (Draft FIPS 186-5) and NIST-recommended elliptic curves (Draft SP 800-186). The public...

The NCCoE has released Draft NISTIR 8269, "A Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning," for public comment.  Comments are due by January 30, 2020.

NIST has released a second public draft of Special Publication 800-189, "Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation." The public comment period closes November 15, 2019.