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NIST Offers Tools to Help Defend Against State-Sponsored Hackers

February 2, 2021

Nations around the world are adding cyberwarfare to their arsenal, employing highly skilled teams to launch attacks against other countries. These adversaries...

5G Cybersecurity: Preliminary Draft of NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-33A

February 1, 2021

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted for comment a Preliminary Draft—the first of three volumes of an upcoming practice guide...

Presidential Innovation Fellow Joins NIST’s AI Team

January 29, 2021

NIST’s Artificial Intelligence (AI) team is taking advantage of insights from a member of the 2021 class of Presidential Innovation Fellows (PIF), now deployed...

Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh: Draft SP 800-204B is Available for Comment

January 27, 2021

Deployment architecture in cloud-native applications now consists of loosely coupled components (microservices), with all application services provided through...

NICE Launches New NICE Framework Users Group

January 27, 2021

NEW NICE FRAMEWORK USERS GROUP In November 2020, NICE released a revision to the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework). The revision updates...

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges: Draft NIST SP 800-47 Revision 1 Available for Comment

January 26, 2021

Organizations frequently share information through various information exchange channels based on mission and business needs. In order to protect the...

NIST Releases Supplemental Materials for SP 800-53 and SP 800-53B: Control Catalog and Control Baselines in Spreadsheet Format

January 26, 2021

New and updated supplemental materials for NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Revision 5, Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and...

ITL Staff Recognized at 48th Annual NIST Awards Ceremony

January 14, 2021

On January 13, 2021, 41 ITL staff members were honored for their exceptional accomplishments during the 2020 NIST Awards Ceremony. The following ITL staff...

Winter 2020-21 NICE eNewsletter Available

January 11, 2021

The Winter 2020-21 NICE eNewsletter is available now. The NICE eNewsletter is published quarterly to provide information on academic, industry, and government...

NIST publishes NISTIR 8322: Workshop Summary Report for “Building the Federal Profile for IoT Device Cybersecurity” Virtual Workshop

January 7, 2021

NIST’s Cybersecurity for the Internet of Things program has published a summary report— NISTIR 8322—for the July 2020 workshop on the creation of a Federal...

Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)--Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Sector: NIST SP 1800-24

December 21, 2020

A new NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide, NIST SP 1800-24, is now available: Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS): Cybersecurity for the...

NIST Software Tool Improves Your Doctor’s Vaccination Advice

December 21, 2020

Behind the scenes at your doctor’s office, there’s a complicated set of information that your providers have to absorb before telling you which vaccinations to...

NICE Framework Adoption, Adaptation, and Extension

December 18, 2020

The National CyberWatch Center recently published a special issue of their Cybersecurity Skills Journal: Practice and Research to highlight investigating...

NIST Releases Draft Guidance on Internet of Things Device Cybersecurity

December 15, 2020

As the Internet of Things (IoT) grows to connect an amazing diversity of devices to electronic networks, four new publications from the National Institute of...

Defining IoT Cybersecurity Requirements: Draft Guidance for Federal Agencies and IoT Device Manufacturers (SP 800-213, NISTIRs 8259B/C/D)

December 15, 2020

An incredible variety and volume of Internet of Things (IoT) devices are being produced. IoT devices are ever more frequently becoming integral elements of...

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Information Technology Laboratory

News and Updates

NIST Offers Tools to Help Defend Against State-Sponsored Hackers

5G Cybersecurity: Preliminary Draft of NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide SP 1800-33A

Presidential Innovation Fellow Joins NIST’s AI Team

Attribute-based Access Control for Microservices-based Applications Using a Service Mesh: Draft SP 800-204B is Available for Comment

NICE Launches New NICE Framework Users Group

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges: Draft NIST SP 800-47 Revision 1 Available for Comment

NIST Releases Supplemental Materials for SP 800-53 and SP 800-53B: Control Catalog and Control Baselines in Spreadsheet Format

ITL Staff Recognized at 48th Annual NIST Awards Ceremony

Winter 2020-21 NICE eNewsletter Available

NIST publishes NISTIR 8322: Workshop Summary Report for “Building the Federal Profile for IoT Device Cybersecurity” Virtual Workshop

Securing Picture Archiving and Communication System (PACS)--Cybersecurity for the Healthcare Sector: NIST SP 1800-24

NIST Software Tool Improves Your Doctor’s Vaccination Advice

NICE Framework Adoption, Adaptation, and Extension

NIST Releases Draft Guidance on Internet of Things Device Cybersecurity

Defining IoT Cybersecurity Requirements: Draft Guidance for Federal Agencies and IoT Device Manufacturers (SP 800-213, NISTIRs 8259B/C/D)

CVMAP for CVE Numbering Authorities (CNAs) and Authorized Data Publishers: NISTIR 8246

Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management: Draft NISTIR 8286A Available for Comment

NIST Releases Supplemental Materials for SP 800-53: Analysis of Changes Between Revisions 4 and 5, and Control Mappings

Cybersecurity Practice Guides for Securing Data Integrity Against Ransomware Attacks

Safeguarding Containers in Multi-Tenant Cloud Environments: Draft NISTIR 8320A is Available for Comment

Face Recognition Software Shows Improvement in Recognizing Masked Faces

National Online Informative References (OLIR) Program: NISTIRs 8278 and 8278A Published

National Cybersecurity Career Awareness Week Recap

Updated Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity: NIST SP 800-181 Revision 1

Updated Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity

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