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Accelerating Ideas Toward Commercialization

February 9, 2021

The start of the new year in the Technology Partnerships Office (TPO) brings with it innovative ideas and projects pushing the TPO and NIST mission forward. One...

Ontology for Authentication: Draft NISTIR 8344 is Available for Comment

February 8, 2021

NIST announces the release of Draft NISTIR 8344, Ontology for Authentication, for public comment. This draft document is the result of an effort to define...

New Working Groups Launched for NICE Community Coordinating Council

February 8, 2021

NEW NICE WORKING GROUPS The NICE Community Coordinating Council (previously NICE Working Group) is pleased to announce new working groups that align with the...

NIST Releases SP 800-172, "Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication 800-171"

February 2, 2021

Also see NIST Offers Tools to Help Defend Against State-Sponsored Hackers NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-172 provides federal agencies with a set of enhanced...

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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...

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...

The New NIST Fire Calorimetry Database Is Available to Answer Your Burning Questions

January 7, 2021

This news article is reproduced from a blog post that originally appeared in the NIST TAKING MEASURE Just a Standard Blog on December 16 th, 2020. By: Matthew...

A Database Rebuild to Champion the Bayh-Dole Act

January 6, 2021

Throughout history, many innovative ideas have been realized and brought to life within federal laboratories across the country. From this, it was discovered...

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...

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...

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)