News & Updates

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-171A, Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information. This publication is.....

NIST announces the release of an errata update for Special Publication 800-171, Revision 1, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information is Nonfederal Systems and Organizations. The errata.....

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-67, Revision 2, Recommendation for the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA) Block Cipher. This publication specifies.....

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication 800-52 Revision 2, Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations. Transport Layer Security (TLS) provides.....

The national need for a common lexicon to describe & organize the cybersecurity workforce and requisite knowledge, skills, and abilities (KSAs) led to the.....

Papers and presentations are solicited for the 5th Annual Hot Topics in the Science of Security (HoTSoS) Symposium, which will be held April 10–11, 2018 at the StateView Hotel in Raleigh, N.C., ......

NIST announces the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8176, Security Assurance Requirements for Linux Application Container Deployments

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet October 25-27, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Releases Draft SP 1800-12, Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials

NIST Announces the Release of a Discussion Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-37, Revision 2, Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations: A System Life Cycle Approach for Security and Privacy

NIST Announces the Final Release of Special Publication (SP) 800-190, Application Container Security Guide

NIST Releases NISTIR 8183, Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile

NISTIR 8192, “Enhancing Resilience of the Internet and Communications Ecosystem,” is now available

A major update to CSRC.nist.gov has officially launched!

NIST Releases the Draft Special Publication 800-177 Revision 1, Trustworthy Email for public comment.  This updated Special Publication has a new....

SCAP 1.2 validation test suite version 1-2.2.0.0 is now available.

NIST Releases the Second Draft of Special Publication 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment, for public comment.

NIST Releases the Initial Public Draft of Special Publication 800-53, Revision 5, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations.

NIST Releases Draft Special Publication 800-56A Revision 3, Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography, for public comment.

NIST Announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-56C Revision 1, Recommendation for Key Derivation through Extraction-then-Expansion for public comment.

NIST invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for the Secure Inter-Domain Routing Building Block. Participation in the building block is open to all interested organizations.

NIST requests public comments on the release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-70 Revision 4, National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers. 

Application Containers are slowly finding adoption in enterprise IT infrastructures. To address security concerns associated with deployment of application container platforms, NIST Special Publication 800-190 (2nd Draft), Application Container Security Guide, identified security threats

NIST requests comments on the current plan for use and deprecation of the Tripe Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA).

NIST is seeking comments on Draft NIST IR 8179, Criticality Analysis Process Model.