News & Updates

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is requesting comments on Draft Special Publication 1800-14, Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Origin Validation. Comments are due October 15, 2018.

NIST has initiated a process to solicit, evaluate, and standardize lightweight cryptographic algorithms that are suitable for use in constrained environments where the performance of current NIST cryptographic standards is not acceptable.

NIST has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication 1800-19A, Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMWare Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments (Executive Summary).

According to a recent independent analysis, e-commerce fraud increased by 30 percent in 2017, compared to.....

Special Publication (SP) 1800-8 informs healthcare organizations on risks associated with deploying and operating wireless infusion pumps, and how to improve their cybersecurity. They are among the most network-connected medical devices.

NIST announces the release of Draft NISTIR 8214, Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives. This publication provides a high-level overview of the possibilities that threshold schemes bring for enhancing the robustness of cryptographic primitive implementations. Comments due Oct. 22, 2018

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-163 Revision 1, Vetting the Security of Mobile Applications, defines the app vetting process—a software assurance method for mobile applications. Revision 1 updates this publication to address changes in the mobile landscape. Comments are due Sep. 6, 2018.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-131A Revision 2, Transitioning the Use of Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Lengths, is now available for public comment, until September 7, 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 They are out of date and will not be revised or superseded.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 National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released the final NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide 1800-2, Identity and Access Management for Electric Utilities, and invites you to download the guide.

Draft SP 800-56B Revision 2 specifies key-agreement and key-transport schemes that are based on the RSA algorithm. The public comment period for this draft is open until October 5, 2018.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-71, Recommendations for Key Establishment Using Symmetric Block Ciphers, addresses key establishment techniques that .....

NIST has published Special Publication (SP) 800-116 Revision 1, Guidelines for the Use of PIV Credentials in Facility Access.

NIST's Computer Security Division is seeking input on the development of standards for stateful hash-based signatures, including XMSS (see IETF RFC 8391).

NIST is publishing Special Publication (SP) 800-171A, Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI). It is intended to help organizations develop assessment plans and conduct efficient, effective, and cost-effective assessments of CUI security reqs in 800-171.

Server Virtualization is now a key component for enterprise IT infrastructure in data centers and cloud services. Virtual servers provide.....

Today, NIST is releasing an update for Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision 1, Protecting Controlled.....

"A Data Structure for Integrity Protection with Erasure Capability" is a draft white paper available for public comment until August 3, 2018. It describes a "block matrix" data structure .

NIST is seeking public comments on Draft NISTIR 8204, Cybersecurity Framework Online Informative References (OLIR) Submissions: Specification for Completing the OLIR Template. The public comment period is open until July 16, 2018.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is requesting comments on a proposed process to.....

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

The initial public draft of SP 800-37 Revision 2, Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations, is available for public comment until June 22, 2018.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-193, Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines, a document that provides technical guidelines and recommendations supporting resiliency of the collection of hardware and firmware components of a computer system, also called the platform.

NIST has published NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 7511 Revision 5, Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.3 Validation Program Test Requirements.

NIST has updated the federal agency organizational codes specified in Special Publication (SP) 800-87, Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations. The changes included in this update, Revision 2, are summarized in the revision history in Appendix A.