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Automotive Cybersecurity Community of Interest (COI)
The automotive industry is facing significant challenges from increased cybersecurity risk and adoption of AI and opportunities from rapid technological innovations. NIST is setting up this community of interest (COI) to allow the industry, academia, and government to discuss, comment, and provide input on the potential work that NIST is doing which will affect the automotive industry. Topics of interest include, but are not limited to: Cryptography Cryptographic agility Migration to...
Bugs Framework BF
[Redirect to:  https://usnistgov.github.io/BF/] The Bugs Framework (BF) is a structured causal classification of security bugs and related faults, featuring a formal language for unambiguous specification of security weaknesses and underlined by them vulnerabilities. It organizes bugs by the operations of orthogonal software or hardware execution phases, faults -- by their input operands, and errors -- by their output results. An error either propagates to a fault or is a final error introducing...
Cyber Threat Information Sharing CTIS
The Computer Security Division is working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop guidance on Computer Security Incident Coordination (CSIC). The goal of CSIC is to help diverse collections of organizations to effectively collaborate in the handling of computer security incidents. Effective collaboration raises numerous issues on how and when to share information between organizations, and in what form information should be shared. Because different organizations may have...
Cybersecurity Risk Analytics CRA
The Cyber Risk Analytics and Measurement program aims to develop cybersecurity risk analytics methods, tools, and guides to improve the understanding of cybersecurity risks, inform management practices, and facilitate information sharing among risk owners.  Below are the internal and external collaborative activities of the program: Cyber Supply Chain Survey Tool NIST is prototyping a survey tool be an educational resource to facilitate cybersecurity supply chain risk management. The tool...
Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management C-SCRM
C-SCRM News | C-SCRM Resources Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) involves identifying, assessing, and mitigating the risks associated with the distributed and interconnected nature of Information Communications Technology and Operational Technology (ICT/OT)  product and service supply chains throughout the entire life cycle of a system (including design, development, distribution, deployment, acquisition, maintenance, and destruction). Examples of risks include insertion of...
Data Security | NCCoE
[Redirect to https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building-blocks/data-security] The Data Security program at the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has produced guidance for both data integrity and data confidentiality. Each will consist of a series of publications that work together to identify, protect, detect, respond to, and recover from critical events.
DevSecOps | NCCoE
[Redirect to https://www.nccoe.nist.gov/projects/software-supply-chain-and-devops-security-practices ] DevOps brings together software development and operations to shorten development cycles, allow organizations to be agile, and maintain the pace of innovation while taking advantage of cloud-native technology and practices. Industry and government have fully embraced and are rapidly implementing these practices to develop and deploy software in operational environments, often without a full...
Entropy as a Service EaaS
Cryptography is critical for securing data at rest or in transit over the IoT. But cryptography fails when a device uses easy-to-guess (weak) keys generated from low-entropy random data. Standard deterministic computers have trouble producing good randomness, especially resource-constrained IoT-class devices that have little opportunity to collect local entropy before they begin network communications. The best sources of true randomness are based on unpredictable physical phenomena, such as...
Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum
The Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum is an informal group sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to promote the sharing of cybersecurity and privacy knowledge, best practices, and resources among U.S. federal, state, and local government, and at higher education organizations handling federal information.  The Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum ("the Forum") maintains an extensive email list, and holds virtual events to...
Hardware Security
Proposed Activities | Previous and Current Activities | Contact Us Semiconductor-based hardware is the foundation of modern-day electronics. Electronics are ubiquitous in our daily lives: from smartphones, computers, and telecommunication to transportation and critical infrastructure like power grids and waterways. The semiconductor hardware supply chain is a complex network consisting of many companies that collectively provide intellectual property, create designs, provide raw materials,...
Incident Response
In April 2025, NIST finalized Special Publication (SP) 800-61 Revision 3, Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile. NIST SP 800-61 Revision 3 seeks to assist organizations with incorporating cybersecurity incident response recommendations and considerations throughout their cybersecurity risk management activities as described by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. Doing so can help organizations prepare for...
macOS Security APPLE-OS
NIST has traditionally published secure configuration guides for Apple operating systems, e.g., NIST SP 800-179. The macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) seeks to simplify the macOS security development cycle by reducing the amount of effort required to implement security baselines. This collaboration between federal organizations minimizes the duplicate effort that would be required to administer individual security baselines. Additionally, the secure baseline content provided is easily...
Measurements for Information Security
The Measurements for Information Security Program aims to better equip organizations to purposefully and effectively manage their information security risk through the development of flexible approaches to the selection, assessment, and management of measures and metrics.  Information Security Measurement Guide  SP 800-55v1 Measurement Guide for Information Security – Volume 1, Identifying and Selecting Measures, provides a flexible approach to the development, selection, and prioritization...
Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group MCSPWG
Cloud computing has become the core accelerator of the US Government's digital business transformation. NIST is establishing a Multi-Cloud Security Public Working Group (MCSPWG) to research best practices for securing complex cloud solutions involving multiple service providers and multiple clouds.   The White House Executive Order on Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity highlights that “the Federal Government needs to make bold changes and significant investments in order to defend the vital...
National Checklist Program NCP
NIST maintains the National Checklist Repository, which is a publicly available resource that contains information on a variety of security configuration checklists for specific IT products or categories of IT products. A security configuration checklist (also called a lockdown, hardening guide, or benchmark) is a series of instructions or procedures for configuring an IT product to a particular operational environment, for verifying that the product has been configured properly, and/or for...
NIST Risk Management Framework RMF
Recent Updates June 30, 2026: NIST SP 800-18r2 (Revision 2), Developing Security, Privacy, and Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Plans for Systems, has been finalized and is now available. This revision broadens the scope of system planning, aligns plan development with the RMF steps and tasks, and emphasizes the use of machine-readable data formats for automated data collection to support risk management decisions throughout the system life cycle. August 27, 2025: In response...
Open Security Controls Assessment Language OSCAL
The Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL) is a NIST-led initiative created in partnership with industry to improve and automate security and compliance workflows. It introduces open, machine-readable formats in XML, JSON, and YAML that simplify control-based risk assessments and compliance activities. Through automation, OSCAL can reduce audit timelines from months to just minutes, decrease the likelihood of human error, and help organizations adapt more quickly to the changing...
Privacy Framework
[Redirect to https://www.nist.gov/privacy-framework] The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.
Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information CUI
Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in nonfederal systems and organizations is critical to federal agencies. The suite of guidance (NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171, SP 800-171A, SP 800-172, and SP 800-172A) focuses on protecting the confidentiality of CUI and recommends specific security requirements to achieve that objective. Recent Updates May 13, 2026: NIST issues SP 800-172r3, Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information,...
Ransomware Protection and Response
Thanks for helping shape our ransomware guidance! We've published our final version of NIST IR 8374 Revision 1, Ransomware Risk Management: A Cybersecurity Framework Profile. It reflects changes made to the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) from CSF 1.1 to CSF 2.0 which identifies security objectives that support managing, detecting, responding to, and recovering from ransomware events. NIST is still actively seeking feedback on resources that can help communities prepare for and recover from...
Secure Software Development Framework SSDF
NIST has finalized SP 800-218A, Secure Software Development Practices for Generative AI and Dual-Use Foundation Models: An SSDF Community Profile. This publication augments SP 800-218 by adding practices, tasks, recommendations, considerations, notes, and informative references that are specific to SI model development throughout the software development life cycle. NIST has recently added a Community Profiles section to this page. It will contain links to SSDF Community Profiles developed by...
Security Content Automation Protocol SCAP
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of interoperable specifications for the standardized expression, exchange, and processing of security configuration and vulnerability information. SCAP enables consistent automation and reporting across products and environments by defining machine-readable content and associated processing requirements. SCAP continues to be maintained through the development of SCAP 1.4, which builds upon prior releases to preserve...
Security Content Automation Protocol Validation Program SCAPVP
Archived. This page is archived for informational purposes only. End-of-Life Announcement: NIST SCAP Validation Program The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the phased conclusion of the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Validation Program. Since its inception in 2009, the SCAP Validation Program has played a crucial role in advancing standardized security automation and vulnerability management. Managed through the National Voluntary Laboratory...
SP 800-53 Control Overlays for Securing AI Systems COSAiS
Recent Updates January 8, 2026: To facilitate discussion at the Cyber AI Profile Workshop #2 on January 14, 2026, an annotated outline (discussion draft) of Control Overlays for Securing AI Systems: Using and Fine-Tuning Predictive AI is available for review. Feedback is welcomed at the workshop, through ongoing engagement in the COSAiS Slack Channel, and by email to [email protected]. Initial feedback on this annotated outline should be submitted by February 13, 2026 to...
Systems Security Engineering (SSE) Project SSE
Systems security engineering contributes to a broad-based and holistic security perspective and focus within the systems engineering effort. This ensures that stakeholder protection needs and security concerns associated with the system are properly identified and addressed in all systems engineering tasks throughout the system life cycle. Mission Statement... To provide a basis to formalize a discipline for systems security engineering in terms of its principles, concepts, and activities....

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