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NIST's NCCoE has released Draft NISTIR 8335, "Identity as a Service for Public Safety." The public comment period ends August 2, 2021.
Abstract: On-demand access to public safety data is critical to ensuring that public safety and first responder (PSFR) personnel can protect life and property during an emergency. The increasing use of cloud technologies can improve data access but also causes authentication challenges. The objective of this...
NIST's OSCAL 1.0.0 provides a stable release for wide-scale implementation.
Internet of Things Cybersecurity Improvement Act of 2020 (Public Law 116-207; December 4, 2020)
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8336, "Background on Identity Federation Technologies for the Public Safety Community." The public comment period ends July 26, 2021.
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Preliminary Draft NISTIR 8374, "Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Ransomware Risk Management." The public comment period is open through July 9, 2021.
Abstract: This report provides the public safety and first responder (PSFR) community with a basic primer on identity federation—a form of trust relationship and partnership involving the verification of a claimed identity. Identity federation technologies can help public safety organizations (PSOs) to share...
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References ISO/IEC 29147 International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (2018) ISO/IEC 29147:2018 – Information technology – Security techniques – Vulnerability disclosure (ISO, Geneva, Switzerland). Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/72311.html ISO/IEC 30111 International Organization for Standardization/International Electrotechnical Commission (2019) ISO/IEC 30111:2019 – Information technology – Security techniques – Vulnerability handling processes (ISO, Geneva, Switzerland). Available at https://www.iso.org/standard/69725.html ISO/IEC...
Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity (May 12, 2021). For more information, see this other NIST site.
Cybersecurity Enhancement Act of 2014 (Public Law 113-274; December 18, 2014)
NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-216, "Recommendations for Federal Vulnerability Disclosure Guidelines." The public comment period is open through August 9, 2021.
NIST's NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description, "Migration to Post-Quantum Cryptography." The public comment period is open through July 7, 2021.
On June 2-3, NIST will host a virtual workshop to enhance the security of the software supply chain and to fulfill the President’s Executive Order (EO) 14028, Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity, issued May 12, 2021. Among other things, Section 4 of EO 14028 directs the Secretary of Commerce, through NIST, to consult with federal agencies, the private sector, academia, and other stakeholders in identifying standards, tools, best practices, and other guidelines to enhance software supply chain security. Those standards and guidelines will be used by other agencies to govern the federal...
Draft NISTIR 8334, "Using Mobile Device Biometrics for Authenticating First Responders," is available for public comment through July 19, 2021.
Abstract: Many public safety organizations (PSOs) are adopting mobile devices, such as smartphones and tablets, to enable field access to sensitive information for first responders. Most recent mobile devices support one or more forms of biometrics for authenticating users. This report examines how first resp...
NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8320, "Hardware-Enabled Security: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security for Cloud and Edge Computing Use Cases." The public comment period is open through June 30, 2021.
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Presentations & Speakers at a Glance: Security & Privacy Authorization: One Agency’s Tool Based Approach. Shawn Hartley, Chief Privacy Officer, PBGC and Sue-Schultz-Searcy, Assessment & Authorization Division Manager PBGC; and Security Automation with Open Security Controls Assessment Language. Dr. Michaela Iorga, OSCAL Strategic Outreach Director, NIST and David Waltermire, Lead Standards Architect for the Security Automation Program, NIST Cyber Security Assessment and Management (CSAM): Planning for Implementing SP 800-53, Revision 5. Ramon Burks and Adam Oline, Department of Justice...
NIST has published a new Cybersecurity Practice Guide, NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-15, "Securing Small-Business and Home Internet of Things (IoT) Devices: Mitigating Network-Based Attacks Using Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD)."
Abstract: The goal of the Internet Engineering Task Force’s Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) specification is for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to behave as the devices’ manufacturers intended. MUD provides a standard way for manufacturers to indicate the network communications that a device requires t...
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has published a final Project Description on "Trusted IoT Device Network-Layer Onboarding and Lifecycle Management. This project will result in a NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide.
Abstract: Network-layer onboarding of an Internet of Things (IoT) device is the provisioning of network credentials to that device. The current lack of trusted IoT device onboarding processes leaves many networks vulnerable to having unauthorized devices connect to them. It also leaves devices vulnerable to b...
The NCCoE has released a draft project description on "Data Classification Practices: Facilitating Data-Centric Security." The public comment period is open through June 21, 2021.