NIST invites comments on Draft Special Publication 800-179, Guide to Securing Apple OS X 10.10 Systems for IT Professionals: A NIST Security Configuration Checklist. This publication assists IT professionals in...

NIST published a summary of observations from Cybersecurity Framework Workshop 2016 held at NIST in Gaithersburg, Maryland on 6 and 7 April 2016. The summary highlights areas of agreement between workshop...

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-166, Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines. SP 800-166 contains the derived test requirements and test assertions for testing the...

NIST is proud to announce the release of Draft Special Publication 800-184, Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery. The purpose of this document is to support federal agencies in a technology-neutral way in...

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will meet Tuesday, June 21, 2016, from 8:30 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Pacific Time at the University of California, Berkeley in the Chevron Auditorium at the International House.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for the Data Integrity Building Block.

NIST is proud to announce the release of NISTIR 8135, Identifying and Categorizing Data Types for Public Safety Mobile Applications: Workshop Report...

NIST is pleased to announce the release of DRAFT NISTIR 8136, Mobile Application Vetting Services for Public Safety. The creation of the nation's first public safety broadband network (FirstNet) will require the...

NIST is pleased to announce the release of Special Publication 800-156, Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export. The document provides the data representation of a chain-of-trust record for the...

Pursuant to the Federal Advisory Committee Act, as amended, 5 U.S.C. App., notice is hereby given that the Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet…

NIST is proud to announce a public preview of Special Publication 800-63-3: Digital Authentication Guideline, which is currently in development. This preliminary draft contains new changes based on what we...

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity (the “Commission”) will meet Monday, May 16, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. until 4:00 p.m. Eastern Time in Vanderbilt Hall at the New York University (NYU) School of Law

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

NIST is pleased to announce the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8105, Report on Post-Quantum Cryptography. NIST Public Affairs Office issued a press release in regards to announcing the...

NIST has published NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8040, Measuring the Usability and Security of Permuted Passwords on Mobile Platforms. Password entry on mobile devices significantly impacts both usability and...

A new chair, Christopher Boyer, was appointed to the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB). ...

NIST is pleased to announce the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8060, Guidelines for the Creation of Interoperable Software Identification (SWID) Tags. This report provides an overview of the...

NIST requests comments on the Second Draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-150, Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing. This draft provides guidelines for establishing, participating in, and maintaining cyber...

NIST announces the final release of the best practices guide for privileged user PIV authentication. The paper is in response to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB)’s October 2015 Cybersecurity Strategy and...

NIST invites comments on the second draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-90C, Recommendation for Random Bit Generator (RBG) Constructions. This Recommendation specifies constructions for the implementation of RBGs...

Special Publication (SP) 800-85A-4 provides derived test requirements and test assertions for testing PIV Middleware and PIV Card Applications for conformance to specifications in SP 800-73-4,...

NIST requests comments on Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8071, LTE Architecture Overview and Security Analysis. Cellular technology plays an increasingly large role in society as it has become the primary portal...

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will meet Thursday, April 14, 2016, from 1 p.m. until 4 p.m. Eastern Time. 

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-175A, Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Directives, Mandates and Policies. The SP 800-175 publications are...

NIST announces the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 7977,Cryptographic Standards and Guidelines Development Process. This document describes the principles, processes and procedures behind our cryptographic...