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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

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Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-56C Revision 2 Available for Comment

March 24, 2020

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-56C Revision 2 , Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes, which...

A fire test of an office building floor replica occurring in a fireproof compartment.

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

March 24, 2020

Engineers and technicians at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) spent months meticulously recreating the long concrete floors supported...

Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: NIST Seeks Comments on Draft SP 800-124 Revision 2

March 24, 2020

Today mobile devices are ubiquitous, and they are often used to access enterprise networks and systems to process sensitive data. Draft NIST Special Publication...

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-56C Revision 2 Available for Comment

March 24, 2020

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-56C Revision 2 , Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes, which...

Supporting Documents for FIPS 140-3 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) Now Available: NIST Special Publication 800-140x Subseries

March 20, 2020

NIST Special Publications (SP) 800-140 and -140A through -140F are now available. With the completion of these documents, the Cryptographic Module Validation...

NIST Community Resilience Guide Supports Maryland Counties Climate Resilience Planning

March 20, 2020

The NIST Community Resilience Program was invited by the University of Maryland’s (UMD) Center for Global Sustainability to support an initiative to aid local...

Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework: NIST Publishes NISTIR 8170

March 19, 2020

Today, NIST has published NISTIR 8170 , Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework. It provides guidance on how the Framework for...

Telework Cybersecurity Resources: New ITL Bulletin and Blog Posts

March 19, 2020

As millions of Americans transition from an office environment to their homes to continue to work, maintaining cybersecurity while teleworking is imperative...

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): Draft NISTIR 8286 Available for Comment

March 19, 2020

All enterprises should ensure cybersecurity risk gets the appropriate attention within their enterprise risk management (ERM) programs, which address all types...

NIST Helps Build Accurate Measurement Infrastructure for 5G Communications

March 18, 2020

As fifth-generation (5G) devices and networks begin to roll out, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is helping to build the crucial...

Woman has a copy of the blue catalog book in front of her along with a 2-step plan for dealing with cybersecurity and privacy risk.

NIST Updates and Expands Its Flagship Catalog of Information System Safeguards

March 16, 2020

After your organization forms a general plan for tackling its cybersecurity and privacy risk management issues, it needs particular state-of-the-art tools to...

Modernizing First Responder Training with VR and Speech Recognition

March 16, 2020

With over 60 million American adults owning a smart speaker, human-to-machine conversation have largely become a part of a daily ritual. Though these exchanges...

NIST Seeks Comments on Final Public Draft of SP 800-53 Revision 5: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations

March 16, 2020

There is an urgent need to strengthen the trustworthiness and resilience of the information systems, component products, and services that we depend on in every...

Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks: Draft NISTIR 8272 Available for Comment

March 13, 2020

NIST requests comments on Draft NISTIR 8272, Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks, which describes a prototype tool developed to...

NIST Conducts Full-Scale Experiments to Demonstrate Flammability Risk of Residential Upholstered Furniture (RUF) and Potential Mitigation Strategies

March 12, 2020

The NIST Flammability Reduction Group (FRG) is conducting a series of full-scale fire experiments in collaboration with the National Fire Research Laboratory...

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Associate Director for Laboratory Programs

News and Updates

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-56C Revision 2 Available for Comment

How Fire Causes Office-Building Floors to Collapse

Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise: NIST Seeks Comments on Draft SP 800-124 Revision 2

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Establishment Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-56C Revision 2 Available for Comment

Supporting Documents for FIPS 140-3 and the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) Now Available: NIST Special Publication 800-140x Subseries

NIST Community Resilience Guide Supports Maryland Counties Climate Resilience Planning

Approaches for Federal Agencies to Use the Cybersecurity Framework: NIST Publishes NISTIR 8170

Telework Cybersecurity Resources: New ITL Bulletin and Blog Posts

Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM): Draft NISTIR 8286 Available for Comment

NIST Helps Build Accurate Measurement Infrastructure for 5G Communications

NIST Updates and Expands Its Flagship Catalog of Information System Safeguards

Modernizing First Responder Training with VR and Speech Recognition

NIST Seeks Comments on Final Public Draft of SP 800-53 Revision 5: Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations

Impact Analysis Tool for Interdependent Cyber Supply Chain Risks: Draft NISTIR 8272 Available for Comment

NIST Conducts Full-Scale Experiments to Demonstrate Flammability Risk of Residential Upholstered Furniture (RUF) and Potential Mitigation Strategies

Calibration of a Commercial Rheometer for Orthogonal Superposition Measurement

HurriCon 2020: Science at the Intersection of Hurricanes and the Populated Coast

NIST Study Uncovers a Potential Driver of Premature Solar Panel Failures

Getting a closer look at living cells and batteries: a little bit of graphene goes a long way

Roll-Up TVs and Bendable Smartphones: Toward More Choices for Flexible Electronic Materials

Cryptographic Key Generation: NIST Releases Draft SP 800-133 Rev. 2 for Comment

Manufacturing Profile for Cybersecurity Framework Version 1.1: NIST Releases Draft NISTIR 8183 Rev. 1 for Comment

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Can Mobile Networks Connect First Responders in Remote Areas?

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