News & Updates

NIST is proposing to revise Special Publication (SP) 800-22 Revision 1a. Please submit public comments by February 14, 2022. 

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

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).

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 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is open through October 15, 2021.

NIST has posted three draft revisions of SP 800-140C/D/F, specifying CMVP Validation Authority updates to ISO/IEC 24759, for public comment. The comment period closes September 20, 2021.

A second public draft of NISTIR 8286A is available: "Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management." The comment period is open through August 6, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final Project Description for "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)."

A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, "Combinatorial Coverage Difference Measurement," is now available. The public comment period is open through August 20, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has published "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Exploring Challenges Associated with Adopting and Using Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms."

Draft NISTIR 8356, "Considerations for Digital Twin Technology and Emerging Standards," is now available for public comment through June 16, 2021.

The NCCoE is requesting comments on a new Draft Project Description, "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)." Public comments may be submitted through May 12, 2021.

Version 2 of test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards now available.

Draft NISTIR 8286A, "Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is available for comment through February 1, 2021.

NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, "An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction," is now available. 

NIST has posted a call for comments on "Performance Measurement Guide for Information Security" (SP 800-55 Rev. 1), with a comment period open through December 10, 2020. A new "Measurements for Information Security" project is also available.

NIST has published NISTIR 8272, "Impact Analysis Tool for Independent Cyber Supply Chain Risks."

NIST has published NISTIR 8214A, "NIST Roadmap Toward Criteria for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives."

NIST is pleased to announce the release of OSCAL 1.0.0 Milestone 3. This is the third official milestone pre-release of .....

NIST has released a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper on "Methodology for Characterizing Network Behavior of Internet of Things Devices." The public comment period ends May 1, 2020.

NIST has published seven documents in the SP 800-140x subseries--supporting documents for FIPS 140-3 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program.

NIST is soliciting comments on Draft NISTIR 8272, "Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks." The public comment period ends April 17, 2020.

NIST has released the Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-140x subseries for public comment. They directly support FIPS 140-3 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP). Comments are due by December 9, 2019.

NIST is pleased to announce the first official release of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL), Version 1.0.0 - Milestone 1. The release.....

NIST has release a draft white paper for public comment: "An Application of Combinatorial Methods for Explainability in Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning." Comments are due by July 3, 2019.