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NIST Staff Receive 2022 Communicators Award of Excellence for Video Animation

NIST's video "Einstein, Time and Very Small Things - with Jun Ye" received a Communicators Award of Excellence in two categories: Use of Animation for Online Video and Science for Online Video. Individuals recognized by the AIVA for this video were...

Amy Mahn

Title of Talk: No Passport Required: NIST’s International Cybersecurity and Privacy Work, Explained… ABSTRACT: NIST’s cybersecurity and...

Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards

The Versailles Project on Advanced Materials and Standards (VAMAS) promotes world trade in products dependent on advanced materials...

2023 CCM & IMEKO TC16 7th International Conference on Pressure and Vacuum Metrology

Mon, May 15 - Fri, May 19 2023

Announcing the  7th CCM International Conference on Pressure and Vacuum Metrology in conjunction with the  7th

NIST Publishes Review of Digital Forensic Methods

May 10, 2022

Report documents the scientific foundations of digital evidence examination and recommends ways to advance the field.

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NIST Finds Wireless Performance Consistent Across 5G Millimeter-Wave Bands

May 10, 2022

After extensive study in the laboratory and two real-world environments, NIST results confirmed that the main signal path — over a clear “line of sight” between...

Indoor Localization and Tracking

This web page is simply a pointer to another page that covers the extensive research program in indoor localization and tracking at NIST.

Quantum Optical Networks

This program develops new measurement techniques, tests and performance procedures, standards, and best practices to enable industry and government to gain

Your Clothes Can Have an Afterlife

May 9, 2022

Only about 15% of used clothes and other textiles in the United States get reused or recycled. The other 85% head straight to the landfill or incinerator. This...

NanoFab Tool: AllWin21 Downstream Asher

The AllWin21 Downstream plasma asher uses heat and exposure to downstream oxygen radicals to remove resist and other organic materials. The cassette load system

New EO Guidance for Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management

May 5, 2022

NIST has released a revision of Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations ( NIST Special Publication 800-161 Revision 1...

Airborne microplastic sampling and characterization

The Microplastics and Nanoplastics Metrology project team in the Materials Measurement Science Division has a research interest in...

NIST Updates Cybersecurity Guidance for Supply Chain Risk Management

May 5, 2022

A new update to the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s foundational cybersecurity supply chain risk management (C-SCRM) guidance aims to help...

Read more about Software Security in Supply Chains: Frequently Asked Questions

Software Security in Supply Chains: Additional Existing Industry Standards, Tools, and Recommended Practices

Though existing industry standards, tools, and recommended practices have been primarily presented through the lens of SP 800-161r1upd1...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Vulnerability Management

Vulnerabilities are discovered in a variety of sources. Software developers may find security bugs in already-deployed code. Security...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Open Source Software Controls

As stated in the EO, “ensuring and attesting, to the extent practicable, to the integrity and provenance of open-source software components...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Enhanced Vendor Risk Assessments

The EO creates higher standards for software verification techniques and other software supply chain controls. Therefore, additional...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Software Bill of Materials (SBOM)

Section 10(j) of EO 14028 defines an SBOM as a “formal record containing the details and supply chain relationships of various components...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Evolving Standards, Tools, and Recommended Practices

This section responds to EO 14028’s mandate for NIST to gather and define evolving industry standards, tools, and recommended practices for...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Software Verification

NIST’s third initiative in response to EO 14028 resulted in the July 2021 release of the Minimum Standards for Vendor or Developer...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Attesting to Conformity with Secure Software Development Practices

NIST’s attestation guidance in response to Section 4(e) outlined minimum recommendations that software purchasers should require of...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Software Cybersecurity for Producers and Users

Section 4(e) of EO 14028 outlines 10 actions and outcomes to further secure software development. Since most subsections in this Appendix...

Software Security in Supply Chains: EO-Critical Software and Security Measures for EO-Critical Software

Following the EO’s directive, NIST’s definition for critical software reflects “the level of privilege or access required to function” and...

Software Security in Supply Chains: Guidance, Purpose, Scope, and Audience

This guidance informs the acquisition, use, and maintenance of third-party software and services for agencies’ information technology (IT)...

Past Events

This page lists past interactive events hosted by the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Program. On June 18, 2025, NIST held "Discussion Forum...

Presentations

This page lists Presentations (non-interactive events) hosted by the NIST Cybersecurity for IoT Program. Other pages list upcoming events...

News Releases

News Article: Department of Commerce Seeks Internet of Things Experts for New Advisory Board News Article: NIST Releases Draft Guidance on...

Blogs

The Cybersecurity for IoT program regularly posts on the NIST Cybersecurity Insights blog page and other NIST blogs: SSDF and IoT...

Announcement History

NIST Selects ‘Lightweight Cryptography’ Algorithms to Protect Small Devices (February 7, 2023) Initial Meeting of the IoT Advisory Board to...

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