News & Updates

The National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) has released a second draft of NISTIR 8355, NICE Framework Competencies: Assessing Learners for Cybersecurity Work. 

NIST announces the release of a major update to Special Publication (SP) 800-160 Volume 2, Revision 1, "Developing Cyber-Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach."

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a new draft project description, Secure IPv6-Only Implementation in the Enterprise.

A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, Combination Frequency Differencing, is now available for public comment.

NIST has released final IoT-specific guidance (NIST Special Publications 800-213 and 800-213A) to federal organizations to support extending their risk management process to the inclusion of IoT devices in federal systems.

Two draft publications on enterprise patch management are available for public comment through January 10, 2022: Draft SP 800-40 Rev. 4 and Draft SP 1800-31.

NISTIR 8286A, Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management, provides an in-depth discussion of the concepts introduced in NISTIR 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM).

A second public draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-161 Revision 1, "Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management Practices for Systems and Organizations," is open for comment through December 10, 2021.

The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released three new draft reports on hardware-enabled security and trusted cloud for public comment.

Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-108 Revision 1, "Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions," is available for public comment through January 18, 2022.

Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-218, "Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities," is open for comment through Nov. 5, 2021.

NIST just released Special Publication (SP) 800-214, 2020 Cybersecurity and Privacy Program Annual Report.

This white paper highlights a recent mapping effort between the North American Electric Reliability Corporation (NERC) Critical Infrastructure Protection (CIP) standards and the NIST Cybersecurity Framework.

NIST has released Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-204C, "Implementation of DevSecOps for a Microservices-based Application with Service Mesh." The public comment period is open through November 1, 2021.

A new SP 800-53 controls Public Comment Site is now available for interacting with, downloading, and submitting security and privacy controls, baselines, and assessments.

NIST plans to revise Special Publication (SP) 800-50 and potentially consolidate it with NIST SP 800-16 to create SP 800-50 Revision 1, "Building a Cybersecurity and Privacy Awareness and Training Program." A call for comments is open through November 5, 2021.

NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-32, Securing the Industrial Internet of Things: Cybersecurity for Distributed Energy Resources.

NIST has published NISTIR 8360, "Machine Learning for Access Control Policy Verification."

Three NIST Special Publications are being withdrawn, effective immediately: SP 800-15, SP 800-25, and SP 800-32.

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8374, "Ransomware Risk Management," is open through October 8, 2021

The public comment period for Draft NISTIR 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is open through October 15, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 1800-34 Volume B, and the comment period is open through September 29, 2021.

The NCCoE has released a Draft Project Description on "Mitigating Cybersecurity Risk in Telehealth Smart Home Integration." The public comment period is open through October 4, 2021.

A new publication identifier syntax for all NIST Technical Series publications is being proposed. Comments on the proposal are welcome through September 30, 2021.

NIST has published NISTIR 8259B, "IoT Non-Technical Supporting Capability Core Baseline," to complement the technical abilities defined in NISTIR 8259A, "Core Device Cybersecurity Capability Baseline."