News & Updates

NIST publishes NISTIR 8200, "Status of International Cybersecurity Standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT)"

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet November 1-2, 2018. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST’s Computer Security Division intends to withdraw three (3) SP 800 publications on October 19, 2018. They are out of date and will not be revised or superseded.

NIST has created an easily accessible repository of terms and definitions extracted verbatim from FIPS, NIST Special Publications, NISTIRs, and CNSSI-4009. Draft NISTIR 7298 Rev. 3 has also been released, which describes the term repository underlying the glossary. Comments are due Dec. 21, 2018.

NIST seeks public comments on Draft NISTIR 8228, which is intended to help federal agencies and other organizations better understand and manage the cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with their IoT devices. Public comments are due October 24, 2018.

NIST’s Computer Security Division intends to withdraw eleven (11) SP 800 publications on August 1, 2018. They are out of date and will not be revised or superseded.

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet Thursday, March 15, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. until 5:00 p.m., Eastern Time, and Friday, March 16, 2018 from 9:00 a.m. until 4:30 p.m. Eastern Time. All sessions will be open to the public....

NIST has released a Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8200, Interagency Report on Status of International Cybersecurity Standardization for the Internet of Things (IoT). Comments will be accepted until April 18, 2018.

NIST has published SP 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers.

NIST publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-187, Guide to LTE Security.

A second round of public comments has started for Draft SP 800-177 Revision 1, "Trustworthy Email"

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet October 25-27, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

A major update to CSRC.nist.gov has officially launched!

NIST Releases the Draft Special Publication 800-177 Revision 1, Trustworthy Email for public comment.  This updated Special Publication has a new....

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) will meet June 28-30, 2017. All sessions will be open to the public.

NIST requests public comments on DRAFT NISTIR 8063, Primitives and Elements of Internet of Things (IoT) Trustworthiness. This report describes research on creating a vocabulary, namely primitives and elements, for composing IOT. ...

NIST announces the release of NIST Special Publication 800-176, 2014 Computer Security Division Annual Report. This annual report provides the important highlights and accomplishments of their work...

NIST seeks public comments on Draft NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8074, which comprises two volumes, "Report on Strategic U.S. Government Engagement in International Standardization to Achieve U.S. Objectives for Cybersecurity" (Vol. 1) and "Supplemental Information" (Vol. 2). 

NIST announces the second public comment release of Interagency Report (IR) 7904, Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation. This report describes a proof of concept implementation that was designed by NIST...

NIST announces the release of an Errata Update for Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. This update contains new mapping tables for ISO/IEC 27001: 2013

Draft NISTIR 7621 Revision 1, Small Business Information Security: The Fundamentals; is now available for public comment. NIST, as a partner with the Small Business Administration and the Federal Bureau of Investigation ...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Appendix H, International Information Security Standards, Security Control Mappings for ISO/IEC 27001: 2013. (NOTE: This draft Appendix H for SP 800-53 Revision 4 ...

NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Interagency Report (IR) 7904, Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation. This publication explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...

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 ...