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The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) is authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278g-4, as amended, and advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on information security and privacy issues pertaining to Federal government information systems, including through review of proposed standards and guidelines developed by NIST. View or download the Federal Register Notice announcing this meeting. View or download the Meeting Minutes from this meeting.  Contact...

Celia Paulsen, Head of Data and Product Security for the CHIPS Program Office will provide an overview of CHIPS efforts.

Executive Order 13702 established the National Strategic Computing Initiative (NSCI) to maximize the benefits of high-performance computing (HPC) for economic competitiveness and scientific discovery. Security is an essential component of HPC. NIST HPC Security Working Group (WG) has been leading the effort to create a comprehensive and reliable security guidance for HPC systems. The workshop aims to listen to community’s needs and feedbacks, report and reflect on the ongoing activities at HPC Security WG, and define and discuss future directions with stakeholders from industry, academia, and...

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 system security and privacy information among federal, state, and local government, and higher education employees. The Forum maintains an extensive e-mail list and holds quarterly meetings to discuss current issues and items of interest to those responsible for protecting non-national security systems. For more information about the Forum and instructions on how to join, see: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/forum....

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) is authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278g-4, as amended, and advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on information security and privacy issues pertaining to Federal government information systems, including through review of proposed standards and guidelines developed by NIST. View and download the Federal Register Notice (FRN) for this event.   View and download the Meeting Minutes for this event. Contact...

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 system security and privacy information among federal, state, and local government, and higher education employees. The Forum maintains an extensive e-mail list and holds quarterly meetings to discuss current issues and items of interest to those responsible for protecting non-national security systems. For more information about the Forum and instructions on how to join, see: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/forum....

Read the Code of Conduct for NIST Meetings Call for Submissions (submission deadline January 28, 2025) The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms, is now available for public comment.  NIST recently published FIPS 203, Module-Lattice-Based Key-Encapsulation Mechanism Standard, to update its cryptographic standards with an algorithm designed to provide protection from quantum attacks.  In addition, NIST will select one or two additional quantum-resistant key-encapsulation mechanisms (KEMs) for standardization. To...

Featured topics: Timelock Encryption, Witness Encryption, Deniable Encryption. Structure: Welcome/introduction; two invited talks; break; one invited talk and a panel conversation. Date and time: January 16th, 2025, 12:00–16:00 EST (UTC -5). (Subject to modifications) Location: Virtual event (video conference). Attendance: Open and free to the public, upon registration. Format: Webinar (presenters can share video and audio; attendees can use text for questions and comments). Schedule STPPA7 Schedule: 12:00: STPPA#7 Welcome and Introduction. Luis Brandao (FGR Contractor @...

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 system security and privacy information among federal, state, and local government, and higher education employees. The Forum maintains an extensive e-mail list and holds quarterly meetings to discuss current issues and items of interest to those responsible for protecting non-national security systems. For more information about the Forum and instructions on how to join, see: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/forum....

  The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) March 2025 Meeting has been canceled. A new date has yet to be determined.   

The NIST OSCAL team is hosting a series of monthly mini workshops that aims to address topics of interest for our community and to open this forum for its members to present their OSCAL-related work. Unless specifically stated, the workshops will not require a deep, technical understanding of OSCAL, and the dialog is informal, allowing the community to interact with the presenters and with the OSCAL team members. Join the events on ZoomGov: Past and new (scheduled) presentations can be found below. Please click the year in the table below to jump to the presentations of choice....

Code of Conduct for NIST Conferences Final Agenda with Links to Presentations The NIST Trust and Provenance in the Semiconductor Supply Chain Workshop will be held as an in-person on Tuesday, April 15, 2025 at the NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) conference facility, in Rockville, MD. This one-day event aims to bring together technical experts from industry, academia, and the government to discuss drivers, need, methods and process to establish trust and provenance across the semiconductor supply chain. The workshop will solicit and obtain valuable feedback from the...

Read the Code of Conduct for NIST Meetings Call for Submissions (Submission Deadline: March 30, 2025) On March 5, 2025, NIST released the draft Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP) 39, Considerations for Achieving Crypto Agility - Strategies and Practices. This white paper provides an in-depth survey of current approaches and considerations to achieving crypto agility. It discusses challenges, trade-offs, and some approaches to providing operational mechanisms for achieving crypto agility while maintaining interoperability. It also highlights some critical working areas that require additional...

Quick links (MPTS 2025): Call for talks (PDF file); Talk proposal form (PDF file); Registration page (ZoomGov);  Workshop dates and place: November 17–20, fully virtual. Attendance: Attendance is free, but requires online registration Daily schedule: To be announced in late September 2025 Call for talks (explaining two types of talks):  Regular talk: Submit by September 10 (general contribution talk)  "Preview talk": Submit by November 03 (in scope of the Threshold Call), aligned with a "Preview Writeup" (LaTeX template available: .ZIP, .PDF) Introduction The NIST...

The Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board (ISPAB) is authorized by 15 U.S.C. 278g-4, as amended, and advises the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), the Secretary of Homeland Security (DHS), and the Director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) on information security and privacy issues pertaining to Federal government information systems, including through review of proposed standards and guidelines developed by NIST. View and download the Federal Register Notice (FRN) for this event.  Meeting Minutes will be posted approximately 30 days after the...

High-performance computing (HPC) systems provide fundamental computing infrastructure and play a pivotal role in economic competitiveness and scientific discovery. Security is an essential component of HPC. NIST HPC Security Working Group (WG) has been leading the effort to create comprehensive and reliable security guidance for HPC systems. As part of the Working Group mission and to reach the greater HPC scientific community, NIST, in collaboration with the National Science Foundation (NSF), will host the 5th High-Performance Computing Security Workshop on May 7-8, 2025. The workshop aims to...

Event theme: Experimenting with implementations of PEC primitives Featured topics: Private Set Intersection (PSI), Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP), Threshold BLS Signatures. Structure: Welcome/introduction; two invited talks; break; one invited talk and a panel conversation Date and time: September 18, 2025, 10:00–16:00 EDT (UTC -4) Attendance: Open and free to the public, upon online registration Format: Webinar (presenters can share video and audio; attendees can use text for questions and comments) Host program: Privacy-Enhancing Cryptography (PEC) @ Cryptographic Technology Group, NIST...

The Federal Cybersecurity & Privacy Professionals Forum is an informal group sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to promote the sharing of system security and privacy information among federal, state, and local government, and higher education employees. 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. For more information about the Forum and instructions on how to join, see: https://csrc.nist.gov/Projects/forum. A...