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.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-183, Networks of ‘Things’. SP 800-183 offers an underlying and foundational understanding of the Internet of Things (IoT) based on the realization that...

NIST invites comments on two draft publications on the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP). The first is Special Publication 800-126 Revision 3, The Technical Specification for the Security Content...

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will meet Tuesday, August 23, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Central Time at the University of Minnesota's TCF Bank Stadium-DQ Club Room.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on a proposed process to solicit, evaluate, and standardize one or more quantum-resistant public-key cryptographic algorithms.

The Commission on Enhancing National Cybersecurity will meet Thursday, July 14, 2016, from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m. Central Time at the Hilton University of Houston. 

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.