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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."

After considering several rounds of public comments, NIST has decided to revise Special Publication 800-22 Rev. 1a, "A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications."

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for IT asset management for the financial services sector.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for identity and access management for the electric power sector.

Type: Presentation

A draft manufacturing implementation of the Cybersecurity Framework ("Profile") has been developed to establish a roadmap for reducing cybersecurity risk for manufacturers that is aligned with manufacturing sector goals and industry best practices.

Join NIST on September 30 and October 6–7, 2026, for Threshold Call Preview Talks #3 (TCPT3). Hosted virtually by the NIST Multi-Party Threshold Cryptography (MPTC) team, this event highlights upcoming external submissions for the NIST Threshold Call.

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-88 Revision 1, Guidelines for Media Sanitization for public review and comment. SP 800-88 discussed methods, techniques and best practices for the sanitization of target data on different media types and risk ...

For the past 18+ months NIST, in collaboration with the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) Office for Civil Rights (OCR), has been working to update NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-66.

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

NIST releases NIST IR 8537, NIST Workshop on the Requirements for an Accordion Cipher Mode 2024: Workshop Report.

The specification of the Triple Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA), NIST SP 800-67 Rev. 2, will be withdrawn January 1, 2024. The algorithm will be disallowed for applying cryptographic protection but will continue to be allowed for processing already-protected data.

NIST requests comments on the current plan for use and deprecation of the Tripe Data Encryption Algorithm (TDEA).

NIST announces the public comment release of draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-40 Revision 3, Guide to Enterprise Patch Management Technologies. Patch management is the process for identifying, acquiring, installing, and verifying patches for products and systems.

The NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-24, "Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS): Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Sector," for public comment. The comment period ends November 18, 2019.

(New comments due date: March 15, 2019) Draft Special Publication 800-189, "Secure Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Robustness and DDoS Mitigation," is now available for comment. The deadline for submitting comments is March 15, 2019.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final project description for "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography."

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

Status Update on NIST Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations

Public Comments: (1) Revised Draft Special Publication 800-73-4, Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification, and (2) Revised Draft Special Publication 800-78-4, Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification, are now available...

NIST has issued Special Publication (SP) 800-53 Release 5.2.0, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations.

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

NIST has published its 2019 Annual Report for the NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program, in Special Publication (SP) 800-211.

Type: Keynote

NIST Releases the Draft Special Publication 800-177 Revision 1, Trustworthy Email for public comment. This updated Special Publication has a new....