News & Updates

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) seeks comments on Draft NISTIR 7823, Advanced Metering Infrastructure Smart Meter Upgradeability…

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-124 Revision 1, Guidelines for Managing and Securing Mobile Devices in the Enterprise. The purpose of this publication is to help organizations centrally manage and secure mobile devices against...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the Revised Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) Publication 201-2, “Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors,” for public review and comment…

The NIST Computer Security Division is pleased to release the Revised Draft Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 201-2, Personal Identity Verification of Federal Employees and Contractors. The Revised Draft FIPS 201-2 reflects the disposition of comments ...

NIST Interagency Report (IR) 7864, The Common Misuse Scoring System (CMSS): Metrics for Software Feature Misuse Vulnerabilities, has been released as final. This report proposes a specification for CMSS, a set of standardized measures for the severity of ...

NIST announces the final release of Special Publication (SP) 800-121 Revision 1, Guide to Bluetooth Security. It describes the security capabilities of technologies based on Bluetooth, which is an open standard for short-range radio frequency communication. 

NIST is hosting the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Workshop on June 26, 2012 to introduce the Center to the public. The Center plans to bring together industry, government and business communities to address present-day cybersecurity challenges, ...

The final version of NIST Special Publication 800-146, Cloud Computing Synopsis and Recommendations is NIST's general guide to cloud computing. It explains cloud systems in plain language and provides recommendations for information technology decision ...

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7848, Specification for the Asset Summary Reporting Format 1.0. NISTIR 7848 defines the Asset Summary Reporting (ASR) format version 1.0, a data model for expressing the data ...

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, May 30, 2012 - Friday, June 1, 2012. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST requests comments on proposed changes to Federal Information Processing Standard 186-3, the Digital Signature Standard. The Federal Register Notice requests that electronic comments be sent by May 25, 2012 ...

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) requests comments on revisions to Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 186-3,…

NIST announces the second public draft of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7622, Notional Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems. This publication is intended to provide a wide array of practices that, when implemented, ...

NIST announces the markup version of NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4 (Initial Public Draft), Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. 

This notice announces the Secretary of Commerce's approval of Federal Information Processing Standard (FIPS) 180-4, Secure Hash Standard (SHS).

NIST announces the Initial Public Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, represents the culmination of a year-long initiative to update ...

NIST announces the final release of Special Publication (SP) 800-153, Guidelines for Securing Wireless Local Area Networks (WLANs). The purpose of this publication is to provide organizations with recommendations for improving the security configuration and monitoring ...

NIST is pleased to announce the release of a report by the University of Maryland's Supply Chain Management Center. The report, which stems from a NIST grant, inventories existing ICT supply chain initiatives and formulates a framework for defining ICT ...

NIST announces the public comment release of draft Special Publication (SP) 800-61 Revision 2, Computer Security Incident Handling Guide. It seeks to assist organizations in mitigating the risks from computer security incidents by providing practical guidelines on responding ...

NIST is pleased to announce the release of Special Publications (SP): SP 800-144, Guidelines on Security and Privacy in Public Cloud Computing. SP 800-144 provides an overview of the security and ...

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7817, A Credential Reliability and Revocation Model for Federated Identities. NISTIR 7817 investigates credential and attributes revocation with a particular focus on identifying missing requirements for ...

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, February 1, 2012 - Friday, February 3, 2012. All sessions will be open to the public.

The Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology announces that the closing deadline for submission of comments responsive to the September 21, 2011…

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Wednesday, October 26, 2011 - Friday, October 28, 2011. All sessions will be open to the public.

The U.S. Department of Commerce and U.S. Department of Homeland Security are requesting information on the requirements of, and possible approaches to creating, a voluntary industry code of conduct to address the detection, …