Cybersecurity Insights

A NICE Retrospective on Shaping Cybersecurity’s Future

December 2, 2025

Rodney Petersen has served as the Director of NICE at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for the past eleven years where his focus has been on advancing cybersecurity education

Sharpening the Focus on Product Requirements and Cybersecurity Risks: Updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers

September 30, 2025

Barbara Cuthill and Michael Fagan

Update: The comment period for your feedback on the second public draft of NIST IR 8259 has been extended through December 10, 2025. Over the past few months, NIST has been revising and updating

Let’s get Digital! Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here!

August 1, 2025

Ryan Galluzzo, Connie LaSalle and Andrew Regenscheid

Today is the day! Digital Identity Guidelines, Revision 4 is finally here...it’s been an exciting journey and NIST is honored to be a part of it. What can we expect? Serving as a culmination of a

Reflections from the First Cyber AI Profile Workshop

July 31, 2025

Katerina Megas, Julie Nethery Snyder and Bronwyn Patrick

Thank you to everyone who participated in the Cyber AI Profile Workshop NIST hosted this past April! This work intends to support the cybersecurity and AI communities — and the input you provided

Nine Years and Counting: NICE RAMPS Communities Keep Expanding Opportunities in Cybersecurity Work and Learning

July 7, 2025

Michael Prebil

A lot has changed in America’s cybersecurity workforce development ecosystem since 2016: employment in cybersecurity occupations has grown by more than 300,000 [1]; the number of information security