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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. Past Internet of Things Advisory Board Meetings...

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...

Bala Muralikrishnan Receives 2021 Arthur S. Flemming Award

Dr. Bala Muralikrishnan is recognized for his seminal research in precision dimensional metrology, which is accelerating the adoption of next-generation coordinate scanning technologies for applications in advanced manufacturing, forensics science...

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NIST, NSF Award More Than $7.6 Million to Support Disaster Resilience Research

May 4, 2022

The agencies are funding 20 projects to be conducted across 24 institutions through the Disaster Resilience Research Grant (DRRG) program, which they manage...

Study Links Urbanization to Poor Ecological Knowledge, Less Environmental Action

May 4, 2022

A new study by researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators highlights a sharp contrast between urban and suburban...

Recognition of Jose A. Torres Ferrer

José Torres Ferrer has been an invaluable assistant and lead instructor for over 140 seminars and nearly 1500 students in the past twenty‐five years covering a full range of laboratory topics covered by the Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) as...

Software Security in Supply Chains

Introduction The Executive Order (EO) on Improving the Nation’s Cybersecurity released on May 12, 2021 acknowledges the increasing number of...

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