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January 31, 2024

NIST seeks to update and improve the guidance in Special Publication (SP) 800-60, Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories. 

January 9, 2024

NIST plans to update Special Publication (SP) 800-100, Information Security Handbook: A Guide for Managers, and is issuing a Pre-Draft Call for Comments to solicit feedback from users. Deadline to submit comments is February 23, 2024.

December 20, 2023

The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released NIST Internal Report (IR) 8432, "Cybersecurity of Genomic Data."

November 9, 2023

The final public draft (fpd) of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171r3 (Revision 3) and initial public draft (ipd) of NIST SP 800-171Ar3 (Revision 3) are now available for public review. The comment period is open through January 26, 2024.

November 7, 2023

NIST has issued SP 800-53 Release 5.1.1 in the Cybersecurity and Privacy Reference Tool (CPRT).

October 17, 2023

NIST is issuing one new proposed control and two control enhancements with corresponding assessment procedures for an expedited 2-week public comment period for October 17–31, 2023.

May 10, 2023

The initial public draft (IPD) of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171, Revision 3, "Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations," is available for public comment and review through July 14, 2023.

March 3, 2023

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has published the initial public draft of NIST Internal Report (NIST IR) 8432, Cybersecurity of Genomic Data.

January 10, 2023

NIST is announcing the initial public drafts of NIST SP 800-157r1 (Revision 1), "Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials," and NIST SP 800-217, "Guidelines for Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Federation." 

December 8, 2022

NIST is seeking public comments on two draft NIST Internal Reports (NIST IR) for the National Online Informative References (OLIR) Program. 

November 1, 2022

In July 2022, NIST issued a Pre-Draft Call for Comments on the Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) series of publications.

July 19, 2022

NIST seeks information for a planned update of the Controlled Unclassified Information series of publications (SP 800-171, -171A, -172, and -172A). The public comment period is open through September 16, 2022.

July 13, 2022

Participate in the inaugural 30-day comment period for a minor (errata) release of SP 800-53 Rev. 5. Submit your comments on proposed changes through August 12, 2022.

March 15, 2022

NIST Releases Special Publication 800-172A, "Assessment Procedures for Enhanced Security Requirements."

January 25, 2022

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

August 3, 2021

Draft NIST Special Publication 800-53A Revision 5, "Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Information Systems and Organizations," is available for comment through October 1, 2021.

July 20, 2021

NIST has published SP 800-47 Revision 1, "Managing the Security of Information Exchanges."

April 27, 2021

NIST has released Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-172A, "Assessing Enhanced Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information." Public comments are due June 11, 2021.

March 31, 2021

NIST has published NISTIR 8212, "An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment," and the ISCMAx tool that implements the ISCM program assessment described in SP 800-137A.

February 2, 2021

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-172, "Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication 800-171"

January 26, 2021

Draft NIST SP 800-47 Revision 1, "Managing the Security of Information Exchanges," is now available for public comment through March 12, 2021.

January 26, 2021

New supplemental materials are available for SP 800-53 Rev. 5 and SP 800-53B: spreadsheets for the Control Catalog and Control Baselines.

November 20, 2020

NIST has published two documents for the National Online Informative References (OLIR) Program, NISTIR 8278 and NISTIR 8278A.

October 1, 2020

Draft NISTIR 8212, "ISCMA: An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment," is available for public comment through November 13, 2020.

September 23, 2020

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Revision 5, "Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations," represents a multi-year effort to develop the next generation of controls needed to strengthen and support the Federal Government and critical infrastructure sectors.

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