News & Updates

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, 2020.

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Special Publication (SP) 800-189, "Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDoS Mitigation," which superseded SP 800-54, "Border Gateway Protocol Security."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 comment period ends January 29, 2020.

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.

NIST has updated Special Publication (SP) 800-128, "Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems"

NIST has released the Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-140x subseries for public comment. They directly support FIPS 140-3 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP). Comments are due by December 9, 2019.

NIST releases Draft SP 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General," for public comment. Comments are due by December 6, 2019.

NIST publishes NISTIR 8268, "Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process."

NIST has released a draft of NISTIR 8267, "Security Review of Consumer Home Internet of Things (IoT) Products," for public comment. The comment period closes November 1, 2019.

NIST has published NISTIR 8183A (3 volumes), "Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide."

The NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-23, "Energy Sector Asset Management," for public comment. The comment period ends November 25, 2019.

NIST has released Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-207, Zero Trust Architecture. Public comments are due by November 22, 2019.

The NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-24, "Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS): Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Sector," for public comment. The comment period ends November 18, 2019.

NIST seeks comments on the Preliminary Draft of the "NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management." The comment period closes October 24, 2019.

NIST has released the Final Public Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, "Developing Cyber Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach." Public comment are due by November 1, 2019.

NIST announces thirty-two (32) candidates for Round 2 of the Lightweight Cryptography (LWC) Standardization project.

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-52 Revision 2, "Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations."