In providing a foundation for cybersecurity advancements over the years, NIST has taken the global context into account when determining priorities and approaches. Our participation in Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs)…

Workshop Shines Light on Role of Standards in Cybersecurity for IoT What do Chief Product Security Officers (CPSOs) want to make their job easier? As it turns out, standards. This…

Given the increasing reliance of organizations on technologies over the past 50 years, a number of risk disciplines have evolved into full-fledged risk programs. In recent years, cybersecurity, supply chain,…

Digital identity for access control is a fundamental and critical cybersecurity capability that ensures the right people and things have the right access to the right resources at the right…

With the update to the Cybersecurity Framework in full swing, NIST continues to prioritize international engagement through conversations and collaborations on cybersecurity. This work is critical to NIST’s efforts to…

Over the past few months, NIST has been seeking feedback on the use and improvements to its cybersecurity resources through the Request for Information (RFI) on “Evaluating and Improving NIST…

In today’s connected digital world, cryptographic algorithms are implemented in every device and applied to every link to protect information in transmission and in storage. Over the past 50 years,…

We are excited to introduce our second guest author in this blog series, Xi He, assistant professor of Computer Science at the University of Waterloo, whose research represents the state…

The NIST Cybersecurity for IoT program published Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks (NISTIR 8228) in June 2019, nearly 3 years ago. Since then, IoT…

NIST has a history of collaboration between its programs, which helps maximize project impacts and practicality to industry. One great example is between NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE)…