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Guide to IPsec VPNs: Draft NIST SP 800-77 Rev. 1 Available for Comment

July 2, 2019

Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a network layer security control used to protect communications over public networks, encrypt IP traffic between hosts...

NIST Releases Draft Plan for Federal Engagement in AI Standards Development

July 2, 2019

GAITHERSBURG, Md. — The U.S. Department of Commerce’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is seeking public comment on a draft plan for...

FRPM19

July 1, 2019

Three members of the NIST Flammability Reduction group recently traveled to Turku, Finland for the biennial European Meeting on Fire Retardant Polymeric...

Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: NIST Publishes Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-14

June 28, 2019

It is difficult to overstate the importance of the internet to modern business and to society in general. The internet is essential to the exchange of all...

Federal Information Security Educator of the Year

June 28, 2019

Congratulations to Mr. Earl Fred Bisel, Jr, Naval Information Warfare Center – Atlantic, for being awarded the Federal Information Security Educators (FISSEA)...

No Longer Under Pressure: NIST Dismantles Giant Mercury Manometer

June 28, 2019

Video by: Jennifer Lauren Lee/NIST. Animations: Sean Kelley/NIST. Music: Blue Dot Sessions. Photos: Bruce Johnson and Jay Hendricks/NIST For the last 30 years...

Under a honeycomb-shaped collection of IoT device icons, a winding road snakes around text questions about IoT risks.

Before Connecting an IoT Device, Check Out a New NIST Report for Cybersecurity Advice

June 27, 2019

Seemingly every appliance we use comes in a version that can be connected to a computer network. But each gizmo we add brings another risk to our security and...

American Chemical Society highlights NIST paper with Editor’s Choice Award

June 26, 2019

A recent manuscript published in the ACS journal Energy & Fuels was selected for the Editor’s Choice Award, which is given to just one paper every day across...

NIST Presents First Real-World Test of New Smokestack Emissions Sensor Designs

June 26, 2019

In collaboration with industry, researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have completed the first real-world test of a...

Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks: NISTIR 8228

June 25, 2019

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving and expanding collection of diverse technologies that interact with the physical world, yet many...

NICE Released the Summer 2019 eNewsletter

June 25, 2019

The Summer 2019 NICE eNewsletter has been published to provide subscribers information on academic, industry, and government developments related to the...

NCCoE Releases Two Data Confidentiality Draft Project Descriptions

June 24, 2019

Summary The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is announcing the release of two new data confidentiality draft project descriptions. We are...

Open Security Controls Assessment Language (OSCAL): V. 1.0.0, Milestone 1

June 21, 2019

NIST is pleased to announce the first official release of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language ( OSCAL), Version 1.0.0 - Milestone 1. The release...

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NIST Team Supersizes ‘Quantum Squeezing’ to Measure Ultrasmall Motion

June 20, 2019

Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have harnessed the phenomenon of “quantum squeezing” to amplify and measure trillionths...

Global City Teams Challenge Smart and Secure City Expo Convenes July 10-12, 2019, in Washington, D.C.

June 20, 2019

WASHINGTON — Teams of innovators and municipal governments around the world who are using technology to address challenges such as disaster response, energy...

NIST Updates SP 800-171 to Help Defend Sensitive Information from Cyberattack

June 19, 2019

An update to one of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) information security documents offers strategies to help protect sensitive...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: Comment on Draft NIST SP 800-171 Rev. 2 and Draft NIST SP 800-171B

June 19, 2019

Summary NIST is seeking comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision 2, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal...

New NIST Reference Material Aims to Improve Food Safety in Corn Products

June 18, 2019

Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new reference material that can be used to identify deadly toxins in...

OSAC Adds Two New Standards to Registry and Opens Comment Period on Two Disaster Victim Identification Standards

June 18, 2019

Two New Standards Placed on OSAC Registry The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) is excited to announce the Forensic Science...

Attribute Considerations for Access Control Systems: NIST Publishes SP 800-205

June 18, 2019

Attribute-based access control systems rely upon enterprise-specific attributes to both define access control policy rules and enforce the access control...

NCCoE Posts Two Draft Project Descriptions to Support Small and Medium Businesses and to Secure Industrial Control Systems in the Manufacturing Sector

June 17, 2019

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted two draft Project Descriptions for public comment: Detecting and Protecting Against Data...

Guidelines for Participation in the 2020 MaCFP Condensed Phase Workshop

June 14, 2019

The Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) Working Group of the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) has released its “...

Draft White Paper: Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)

June 11, 2019

NIST is releasing a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment, Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software...

Draft White Paper: Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF)

June 11, 2019

NIST is releasing a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment, Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software...

A Bubbly New Way to Detect the Magnetic Fields of Nanometer-Scale Particles

June 10, 2019

As if they were bubbles expanding in a just-opened bottle of champagne, tiny circular regions of magnetism can be rapidly enlarged to provide a precise method...

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