NIST released NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals. NIST developed this interagency report as a reference guideline about cybersecurity for small businesses...

NIST is pleased to release the draft NICE Cybersecurity Workforce Framework (NCWF) - a reference resource that will allow our nation to more effectively identify, recruit, develop and maintain its cybersecurity talent...

Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5 Status Update

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-121 Revision 2 Guide to Bluetooth Security. This draft is the second revision to NIST SP 800-121, Guide to Bluetooth Security. Updates in this revision...

Special Publication 800-178, A Comparison of ABAC Standards for Data Service Applications: XACML and NGAC and Special Publication 800-150, Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing ...

NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8151, Dramatically Reducing Software Vulnerabilities -- Report to the White House Office of Science and Technology Policy.

DRAFT NISTIR 8149, Developing Trust Frameworks to Support Identity Federations is now available for public comment - (click link above to go to the CSRC Draft Publications page to learn more about this draft &...

DRAFT NISTIR 8138, Vulnerability Description Ontology (VDO): a Framework for Characterizing Vulnerabilities; aims to describe a more effective and efficient methodology for characterizing vulnerabilities found in ...

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet October 26-28, 2016. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST announces the release of the final draft of Special Publication 800-160, Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems. 

Open Meeting of the Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity

NIST has released a draft of the Baldridge Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, a self-assessment tool to help organizations better understand the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts. 

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted a draft Project Description on the topic of Authentication for Law Enforcement Vehicle Systems. 

NIST released DRAFT NISTIR 8144, Assessing Threats to Mobile Devices & Infrastrucutre: the Mobile Threat Catalogue. The Mobile Threat Catalogue outlines a catalogue of threats to mobile devices and associated...

A draft manufacturing implementation of the Cybersecurity Framework ("Profile") has been developed to establish a roadmap for reducing cybersecurity risk for manufacturers that is aligned with manufacturing sector goals...

See NIST's Public Affairs press release to read this announcement. The next ISPAB meeting will be October 26, 27 and 28, 2016, at NIST Campus.

NIST Requests Comments on a Draft Special Publication regarding the De-Identification of Government Datasets 

These documents are intended to provide guidance to the Federal Government for using cryptography and NIST’s cryptographic standards to protect sensitive, but unclassified digitized information during transmission and...

Draft Special Publication 800-171, Revision 1, represents a limited update to the original publication released in June 2015. In particular, this update includes...

Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8114, Report on Lightweight Cryptography is now available for public comment. NIST-approved cryptographic standards were designed to perform well using general-purpose...

NIST is proud to announce the release of Special Publication 800-182, 2015 Computer Security Division Annual Report. This annual report provides major highlights and accomplishments that the NIST Computer...

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity requests information about current and future states of cybersecurity in the digital economy.

The new SP 800-73-4-based Test Runner has been released

NIST Released 5 Publications During Week of August 1-5, 2016: ...

NIST is requesting comments on a proposed process to solicit, evaluate, and standardize one or more quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms. Comments are due September 16, 2016.