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NCCoE is releasing the draft Executive Summary, NIST SP 1800-33 5G Cybersecurity Volume A
Abstract: The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is collaborating with technology providers and other companies on a project to develop example solution approaches for safeguarding 5G networks. These solutions use combinations of cybersecurity and privacy measures drawn from 5G capabilities a...
Combinatorial testing is being applied successfully in nearly every industry, and is especially valuable for assurance of high-risk software with safety or security concerns. Combinatorial testing is referred to as effectively exhaustive, or pseudo-exhaustive, because it can be as effective as fully exhaustive testing, while reducing test set size by 20X to more than 100X. Case studies below are from many types of applications, including aerospace, automotive, autonomous systems, cybersecurity, financial systems, video games, industrial controls, telecommunications, web applications, and...
NCCoE has released NIST IR 8523 ipd for public comment until 11:59 PM ET on Monday, April 14, 2025
Abstract: Most recent cybersecurity breaches have involved compromised credentials. Migrating from single-factor to multi-factor authentication (MFA) reduces the risk of compromised credentials and unauthorized access. Both criminal and noncriminal justice agencies need to access criminal justice information...
The latest Quick Start Guide for the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 is available for public comment through April 25, 2025.
Abstract: This Quick Start Guide (QSG) shows how the NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity and the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) can be used together to facilitate communication across business units and improve organizational processes where cybersecurity, enterprise risk management (ERM), and workforce...
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Recent Updates July 24, 2024: NIST releases SP 1314, NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) Small Enterprise Quick Start Guide, designed to introduce the RMF to small, under-resourced entities. April 10, 2024: NIST releases introductory courses for SP 800-53, SP 800-53A, and SP 800-53B. Each 45-60 minute course provides a high-level overview of the SP 800-53 controls, SP 800-53A assessment procedures, and SP 800-53B control baselines. January 31, 2024: NIST seeks to update and improve the guidance in SP 800-60, Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to 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, and manufacture, test, package, and distribute products. Coordination among these companies is...
Our Goal The Human-Centered Cybersecurity program within the NIST Visualization and Usability Group provides research evidence and guidance to policymakers, system engineers, organizational decision makers, and cybersecurity professionals so that they can make better decisions that consider the human element, thereby advancing cybersecurity adoption and empowering people to be active, informed partners in cybersecurity. Ideally, this guidance should: Have a basis in real empirical data Create solutions that are secure in practice, not just in theory Take stakeholders' needs and behaviors...
NIST Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP), Considerations for Achieving Crypto Agility, provides an in-depth survey of current approaches and considerations to achieving crypto agility.
Abstract: Crypto agility refers to the capabilities needed to replace and adapt cryptographic algorithms in protocols, applications, software, hardware, and infrastructures. This white paper provides an in-depth survey of current approaches to achieving crypto agility. It discusses challenges and tradeoffs an...
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 AI 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 NIST and by third parties. Contact us at [email protected] if you have a published SSDF Community...
The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) along with the SEMI Semiconductor Manufacturing Cybersecurity Consortium has released Draft NIST Internal Report (IR) 8546, Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 Semiconductor Manufacturing Community Profile for public comment until 11:59 PM ET on Friday, May 30, 2025.
Abstract: This document defines a Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 Community Profile with a voluntary, risk-based approach to managing cybersecurity activities and reducing cyber risks for semiconductor development and manufacturing. Collaboratively developed in support of the National Cybersecurity Implemen...
NIST has released revisions or updates to all five publications in its Interagency Report (IR) 8286 series. The public comment period is open through April 14, 2025, for the initial public drafts of IR 8286r1, IR 8286Ar1, and IR 8286Cr1.
The NIST Cybersecurity & Privacy Professionals Forum is co-chaired by representatives of NIST's Information Technology Laboratory, Computer Security Division (CSD) and Applied Cybersecurity Division (ACD). The Forum Secretariat provides the necessary administrative and logistical support for operations. The Forum serves as an important mechanism for NIST to: exchange information directly with cybersecurity and privacy professionals in U.S. federal, state, and local government, and higher education organizations in fulfillment of its leadership mandate under the Federal Information...
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 higher education organizations. The Federal Cybersecurity and Privacy Professionals Forum ("the Forum") maintains an extensive email list, and holds quarterly meetings to discuss current issues and items of interest to those responsible for protecting non-national security systems. There is no cost...
Abstract: The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of cybersecurity attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that cybersecurity risk is receiving appropriate attention within their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs. This document is intended to help individual organizations within an...
Abstract: This document supplements NIST Interagency Report 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), by providing additional detail regarding risk guidance, identification, and analysis. This report offers examples and information to illustrate risk tolerance, risk appetite, and m...
Abstract: This document is the second in a series that supplements NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). This series provides additional detail regarding the enterprise application of cybersecurity risk information; the previous document, NIST IR 82...
Abstract: This document is the third in a series that supplements NIST Interagency Report (IR) 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM). This series provides additional details regarding enterprise application of cybersecurity risk information; the previous documents, IRs 8286A and...