News & Updates

NIST releases NIST Cybersecurity White Paper 26, Ordered t-way Combinations for Testing State-based Systems.

The initial public draft of NIST IR 8286D, "Using Business Impact Analysis to Inform Risk Prioritization and Response, is available for public comment through July 18, 2022.

Today, NIST is seeking public comments on NIST IR 8409 ipd (initial public draft), Measuring the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Base Score Equation.

NIST has published revisions of two Special Publications (SP) that identify security functions and sensitive security parameter generation and establishment methods allowed within the context of the Cryptographic Module...

The initial public draft of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-140Br1 (Revision 1), CMVP Security Policy Requirements: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759 and ISO/IEC 19790 Annex B, is now available for public...

After considering several rounds of public comments, NIST has decided to revise Special Publication 800-22 Rev. 1a, "A Statistical Test Suite for Random and Pseudorandom Number Generators for Cryptographic Applications."

Second Drafts of NIST SP 800-140C/D Rev. 1 Available for Comment until March 25, 2022.

NIST has published NISTIR 8286B, "Prioritizing Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management." It is part of the NISTIR 8286 subseries, which enables risk practitioners to more fully integrate cybersecurity risk...

NIST has published SP 1800-32, "Securing Distributed Energy Resources: An Example of Industrial Internet of Things Cybersecurity."

NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8286C, "Staging Cybersecurity Risks for Enterprise Risk Management and Governance Oversight." The public comment period closes March 11, 2022.

NIST is proposing to revise Special Publication (SP) 800-22 Revision 1a. Please submit public comments by February 14, 2022. 

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

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...

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.

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

NIST has posted three draft revisions of SP 800-140C/D/F, specifying CMVP Validation Authority updates to ISO/IEC 24759, for public comment. The comment period closes September 20, 2021.

A second public draft of NISTIR 8286A is available: "Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management." The comment period is open through August 6, 2021.

NIST's National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence has released a final Project Description for "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)."

A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, "Combinatorial Coverage Difference Measurement," is now available. The public comment period is open through August 20, 2021.

NIST's NCCoE has published "Getting Ready for Post-Quantum Cryptography: Exploring Challenges Associated with Adopting and Using Post-Quantum Cryptographic Algorithms."

Draft NISTIR 8356, "Considerations for Digital Twin Technology and Emerging Standards," is now available for public comment through June 16, 2021.

The NCCoE is requesting comments on a new Draft Project Description, "Automation of the Cryptographic Module Validation Program (CMVP)." Public comments may be submitted through May 12, 2021.

Version 2 of test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards now available.

Draft NISTIR 8286A, "Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management," is available for comment through February 1, 2021.

NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, "An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction," is now available.