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Information Technology Laboratory

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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...

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...

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

March 5, 2020

NIST requests your comments on Draft SP 800-133 Revision 2, Recommendation for Cryptographic Key Generation , which discusses the generation of the keys to be...

NIST Publishes SP 800-171 Revision 2: Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations

February 21, 2020

NIST Special Publication 800-171, Revision 2, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations, has been approved as...

NVD Metadata Submission Guidelines for CVE Numbering Authorities and Authorized Data Publishers: Draft NISTIR 8246 Available for Comment

February 10, 2020

The number of Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures identifiers (CVE IDs) created year over year has rapidly increased, and this trend is expected to continue...

NIST Offers Strategies to Help Businesses Secure Their Cyber Supply Chains

February 4, 2020

Reducing the cybersecurity risk to one of the most vulnerable aspects of commerce — global supply chains — is the goal of a new publication by the National...

NIST Special Publication 800-161 Revision 1, Pre-Draft Call for Comments

February 4, 2020

Since NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-161, Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Federal Information Systems and Organizations, was published in 2015...

NIST Releases Draft NISTIR 8276 for Comment, “Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from Industry,” and Publishes Cyber SCRM Case Studies

February 4, 2020

NIST requests feedback on Draft NISTIR 8276, Key Practices in Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management: Observations from industry. This publication is based on an...

Building Secure Microservices-Based Applications Using Service-Mesh Architecture: Draft SP 800-204A is Available for Comment

January 17, 2020

As microservices-based applications are increasingly adopted within large enterprises and cloud-based environments, there is a need for a dedicated, scalable...

NIST Publishes "A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems"

January 14, 2020

Traditional identity management has typically involved the storing of user credentials (e.g., passwords) by organizations and third parties, which often results...

Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: NIST Releases Draft SP 800-137A for Comment

January 13, 2020

Federal agencies, under the Federal Information Security Modernization Act of 2014 (FISMA) and Office of Management and Budget (OMB) circulars and memoranda...

Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes: Draft NIST SP 800-208 Available for Comment

December 11, 2019

NIST invites comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-208, Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes. All of the digital signature...

NIST Releases SP 800-160 Vol. 2: Developing Cyber Resilient Systems – A Systems Security Engineering Approach

November 27, 2019

The United States continues to have complete dependence on information technology deployed in critical systems and applications in both the public and private...

Automation Support for Security Control Assessments—Software Vulnerability Management: Draft NISTIR 8011, Vol. 4 Available for Comment

November 20, 2019

When known software vulnerabilities are unmanaged, uncorrected, or undetected, attack vectors are left open to exploit the software. As a result, vulnerable...

Towards NIST Standards for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives—A Preliminary Roadmap: Draft NISTIR 8214A Available for Comment

November 11, 2019

NIST invites comments on Draft NISTIR 8214A , Towards NIST Standards for Threshold Schemes for Cryptographic Primitives: A Preliminary Roadmap, which presents a...

Digital Signatures and Elliptic Curve Cryptography: Request for Comments on Draft FIPS 186-5 and Draft SP 800-186

October 31, 2019

Summary A Federal Register Notice (FRN) announces a Request for Comments on Draft FIPS 186-5 and Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-186. NIST seeks...

A Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning: NIST Releases Draft NISTIR 8269 for Comment

October 30, 2019

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released Draft NISTIR 8269, A Taxonomy and Terminology of Adversarial Machine Learning, for...

Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: NIST Releases Second Public Draft of SP 800-189

October 17, 2019

In recent years, numerous routing control plane anomalies such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), prefix hijacking, and route leaks have resulted in denial of...

Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems: NIST Updates Special Publication 800-128

October 15, 2019

NIST announces an update of Special Publication (SP) 800-128 , Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems, which provides...

Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP) Validation Authority Updates: Draft NIST SP 800-140x Subseries Available for Comment

October 9, 2019

Summary NIST has released the following Draft NIST Special Publications (the SP 800-140x “subseries”) for public comment. They directly support Federal...

Recommendation for Key Management, Part 1 – General: Draft NIST SP 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5 Available for Comment

October 8, 2019

NIST invites comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General. This document provides...

NIST Publishes NISTIR 8268, Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process

October 7, 2019

NIST announces the publication of NIST Internal Report (IR) 8268, Status Report on the First Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process...

Security Review of Consumer Home IoT Products: Draft NISTIR 8267 Open for Public Comment

October 1, 2019

Consumer IoT products are rapidly growing in popularity because these devices can make basic tasks, like adjusting the thermostat or turning on exterior home...

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level Example Implementations Guide Released

September 30, 2019

An Implementation Guide for the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Manufacturing Profile Low Impact Level has been developed for manufacturers managing cybersecurity...

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