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April 15, 2026

NIST has published Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP) 52, "Firmware-Based Monitoring for Bus-Based Computer Systems," introducing a low-cost, innovative approach to enhancing hardware security visibility.

July 30, 2024

The final version of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-201, NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Reference Architecture, is now available.

October 11, 2023

NIST has released the initial public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-92r1 (Revision 1), Cybersecurity Log Management Planning Guide, for public comment. The comment period closes on November 29, 2023.

February 8, 2023

The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-201, NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Reference Architecture, is now available for public comment.

August 25, 2020

NIST announces the publication of "NIST Cloud Computing Forensic Science Challenges," NISTIR 8006.

June 5, 2019

NIST announces the publication of NISTIR 8221, "A Methodology for Enabling Forensic Analysis Using Hypervisor Vulnerabilities Data."

September 21, 2018

NIST has released Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8221, which analyzes recent vulnerabilities associated with two open-source hypervisors--Xen and KVM--as reported by the NIST National Vulnerability Database. The public comment period closes Friday, October 12, 2018.

May 10, 2018

Data recovered from digital devices is often helpful in providing clues for incidents and potential criminal.....

March 26, 2018

To address these issues, NIST’s Computer Forensics Tools Testing (CFTT) program tests computer forensic tools to ensure that.....

May 28, 2014

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-101 Revision 1, Guidelines on Mobile Device Forensics. Mobile device forensics is the science of recovering digital evidence from a mobile device under forensically sound conditions using accepted methods.