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Draft White Paper on "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography" is Available for Comment

May 26, 2020

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) is initiating the development of practices to ease the migration from the current set of public-key...

Assessing Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) Programs: NIST Special Publication 800-137A Now Available

May 21, 2020

Federal agencies are directed to implement a program to continuously monitor their organizational information security status. NIST Special Publication (SP) 800...

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

May 4, 2020

NIST has updated its key management guidance in S pecial Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General. This...

NIST Publishes Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1, Revision 5, "Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General"

May 4, 2020

NIST has updated its key management guidance in Special Publication (SP) 800-57 Part 1 Revision 5, Recommendation for Key Management: Part 1 – General. This...

Symposium on Federally Funded Research on Cybersecurity of Electric Vehicle Supply Equipment (EVSE): NISTIR 8294

April 29, 2020

U.S. Government concerns about the cybersecurity of electric vehicle supply equipment (EVSE) infrastructure cover a range of issues. What impact would EVSE have...

Automation Support for Security Control Assessments: Software Vulnerability Management--NIST Publishes NISTIR 8011 Vol. 4

April 28, 2020

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

Hardware-Enabled Security for Server Platforms: Draft White Paper Available for Comment

April 28, 2020

NIST requests comments on the Draft Cybersecurity White Paper, Hardware-Enabled Security for Server Platforms: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security...

General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems: Draft NIST SP 800-210 is Available for Comment

April 1, 2020

NIST requests comments on Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-210, General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems, which presents an initial step toward...

NIST SP 800-175B Revision 1--Guideline for Using Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic Mechanisms

March 31, 2020

Network and data security are essential in today's environment of increasingly open and interconnected systems, networks, and mobile devices. Critical security...

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...

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...

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...

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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...

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