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NIST announces the completion of Revision 1 of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-90A, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators.

NIST announces the release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control System (ICS) Security. Special Publication 800-82 provides guidance on how to improve the security in Industrial Control Systems (ICS), ...

NIST announces that Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-85A-4, PIV Card Application and Middleware Interface Test Guidelines (SP 800-73-4 Compliance), is now available for public comment.

Two PIV Special Publications (SP) have been released: (1) SP 800-73-4, Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification, AND (2) SP 800-78-4, Cryptographic Algorithms and Key Sizes for Personal Identity Verification

NIST requests comments on SP 800-63-2, Electronic Authentication Guideline. This document describes the technical requirements necessary to meet the four Levels of Assurance that are specified in the OMB ...

NIST announces the final public draft release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control System (ICS) Security. (Note: As of May 2015, this draft has been approved as final) Special Publication 800-82 provides guidance on how to improve the security in Industrial Control..

Special Publication 800-57, Part 3, Revision 1, Recommendation for Key Management, Part 3: Application-Specific Key Management Guidance, is intended primarily to help system administrators ...

NIST announces the release of Special Publication (SP) 800-157, Guidelines for Derived Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials. SP 800-157 defines a technical specification for implementing and deploying Derived PIV Credentials to mobile devices, ...

NIST requests comments on DRAFT Special Publication (SP) 800-152, A Profile for U.S. Federal Cryptographic Key Management Systems. This Profile is based on NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-130, A Framework for Designing Cryptographic Key Management Systems, ...

NIST requests your comments on the latest revision of Special Publication 800-90A, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators, which is dated November 2014. This document specifies Deterministic Random Bit Generators ...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-171, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Non-federal Information Systems and Organizations (Initial Public Draft).

NIST announces the public comment release of NIST DRAFT Special Publication 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment. Server Virtualization (enabled by Hypervisor) is finding widespread adoption in enterprise data centers both for hosting in-house ...

These 2 documents were approved as final at end of September - made available to CSRC website on September 30 - Special Publication 800-56B Revision 1 and NISTIR 7628 Revision 1

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-53, Revision 4, Appendix H, International Information Security Standards, Security Control Mappings for ISO/IEC 27001: 2013. (NOTE: This draft Appendix H for SP 800-53 Revision 4 ...

NIST announces that Draft Special Publication 800-163, Technical Considerations for Vetting 3rd Party Mobile Applications, is now available for public comment. The purpose of this document is to provide guidance for vetting 3rd party software applications (apps) ...

NIST produced a revised version of NIST Special Publication SP 800-85B, PIV Data Model Conformance Test Guidelines. The revisions include additional tests necessary to test new features added to the PIV Data Model in SP 800-73-4 Parts 1. This document, ...

NIST announces the release of Draft Special Publication 800-53A, Revision 4, Assessing Security and Privacy Controls in Federal Information Systems and Organizations: Building Effective Assessment Plans (Initial Public Draft).

Draft Special Publication 800-38G, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Format-Preserving Encryption, released for public comment in July 2013, included three methods for format-preserving encryption (FPE). Called FF1, FF2, and FF3,...

Update on Three FISMA Publications Ongoing Authorization Supplemental Guidance, SP 800-37, Rev 1 (Errata), SP 800-53A Rev 2 (IPD) The FISMA Implementation Project is announcing the following schedule for three publications.

The NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 4 On-line Reference Database has been posted which contains the catalog of security controls from Appendix F and G of SP 800-53 Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations (April 2013).

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 announces the release of Special Publication 800-82, Revision 2, Guide to Industrial Control System (ICS) Security. Special Publication 800-82 provides guidance on how to improve the security in Industrial Control Systems (ICS), ...

NIST would like to request comments on a Draft Revision of SP 800-57 Part 3, Recommendation for Key Management: Application-Specific Key Management Guidance.

In support of the Federal Information Security Management Act of 2002 and the 2014 Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, NIST will issue in May 2014, the initial public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-160, Systems Security Engineering ...

NIST requests comments on a revision of Draft Special Publication 800-90A Revision 1, Recommendation for Random Number Generation Using Deterministic Random Bit Generators. This revision removes the Dual_EC_DRBG from the document.