Cybersecurity Insights

Digital Identities: Getting to Know the Verifiable Digital Credential Ecosystem

January 7, 2026

Bill Fisher, Ryan Galluzzo and Heather Flanagan

Understanding mDL credential formats Standards in the VDC Ecosystem In our first blog post in this series, we highlighted that VDCs can represent a wide range of credentials, from a driver’s license

A NICE Retrospective on Shaping Cybersecurity’s Future

December 2, 2025

Rodney Petersen

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