News & Updates

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.

NIST Releases Special Publication 800-192, Verification and Test Methods for Access Control Policies/Models

NIST Releases Special Publication 800-12 Revision 1, An Introduction to Information Security

NIST Special Publication 800-63-3, Digital Identity Guidelines is now final

NIST is pleased to announce the final publication of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8011, Automation Support for Security Control Assessments, Volumes 1 and 2.

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet June 28-30, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication 800-193,  Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines. The platform is a collection of fundamental hardware and firmware components needed to boot and operate a computer system.

NISTIR 8170 rovides guidance on how the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Framework) can be used in the U.S. Federal Government in conjunction with the current and planned suite of NIST security and privacy risk management publications.

As the world rapidly embraces the Internet of Things, properly securing medical devices has grown challenging for most healthcare delivery organizations (HDOs).......

SP 800-121 Rev. 2 has been approved as final & is now available.

The Department of Homeland Security (DHS) has published the "Study on Mobile Device Security," a report to Congress that details current and emerging threats to the Federal Government's use of mobile devices. It also recommends security improvements to the mobile device ecosystem.