News & Updates

NIST is releasing two guides to address the challenge of ransomware: NISTIR 8374, "Ransomware Risk Management: A Cybersecurity Framework Profile," and a companion quick start guide, "Getting Started with Cybersecurity Risk Management: Ransomware."

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-219, "Automated Secure Configuration Guidance from the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP)." The public comment period closes on March 23, 2022.

NIST has published NISTIR 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management." It is part of the NISTIR 8286 subseries, which enables risk practitioners to more fully integrate cybersecurity risk management (CSRM) activities into the broader enterprise risk processes.

The SSDF has been updated to version 1.1 in the new release of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-218.

NIST has published SP 1800-32, "Securing Distributed Energy Resources: An Example of Industrial Internet of Things Cybersecurity."

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8286C, "Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight." The public comment period closes March 11, 2022.

NIST has released Special Publication (SP) 800-53A Revision 5, "Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations."

NIST is releasing the draft of a major revision to Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 1, Engineering Trustworthy Secure Systems, which is available for comment through February 25, 2022.

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a second draft of NISTIR 8355, NICE Framework Competencies: Assessing Learners for Cybersecurity Work. 

NIST announces the release of a major update to Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, Revision 1, "Developing Cyber-Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft project description, Secure IPv6-Only Implementation in the Enterprise.

NIST has released final IoT-specific guidance (NIST Special Publications 800-213 and 800-213A) to federal organizations to support extending their risk management process to the inclusion of IoT devices in federal systems.

Two draft publications on enterprise patch management are available for public comment through January 10, 2022: Draft SP 800-40 Rev. 4 and Draft SP 1800-31.

NISTIR 8286A, Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management, provides an in-depth discussion of the concepts introduced in NISTIR 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released three new draft reports on hardware-enabled security and trusted cloud for public comment.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-218, "Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities," is open for comment through Nov. 5, 2021.

This white paper highlights a recent mapping effort between the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

A new SP 800-53 controls Public Comment Site is now available for interacting with, downloading, and submitting security and privacy controls, baselines, and assessments.

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-32, Securing the Industrial Internet of Things: Cybersecurity for Distributed Energy Resources.

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8374, "Ransomware Risk Management," is open through October 8, 2021

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is open through October 15, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-34 Volume B, and the comment period is open through September 29, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description on "Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk in Telehealth Smart Home Integration." The public comment period is open through October 4, 2021.

A public comment period is open through September 20, 2021, for Draft Special Publication 800-160 Volume 2, Revision 1, "Developing Cyber-Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

A new draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper on "Planning for a Zero Trust Architecture" is available for comment through September 3, 2021.