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Recent News

Small Business Primer for Protecting CUI August 18, 2025
NIST has released a small business primer to supplement SP 800-171 revision 3, to help smaller, under-resourced organizations better protect Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI).
Control Overlays for Securing AI Systems August 14, 2025
NIST has released a concept paper and proposed action plan for developing a series of NIST SP 800-53 Control Overlays for Securing AI Systems, as well as a launching a Slack channel for this community of interest.
NIST Publishes SP 800-232 August 13, 2025
NIST has released Special Publication (SP) 800-232, Ascon-Based Lightweight Cryptography Standards for Constrained Devices: Authenticated Encryption, Hash, and Extendable Output Functions.
Draft Special Publication 1800-43, Vol. A and C August 5, 2025
Draft Volumes A and C of NIST SP 1800-43 are open for public comments
NIST Revises Digitial Identity Guidelines | SP 800-63-4 August 1, 2025
Revision 4 of the Digital Identity Guidelines suite of NIST reports is now available.

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Upcoming Events

OSCAL Adopters' Monthly Workshops Series November 30, 2022 - December 17, 2025
The NIST OSCAL team is hosting a series of monthly mini workshops that aims to address topics of interest for our community and to open this forum for its members to present their OSCAL-related work. Unless specifically...
Federal Cybersecurity & Privacy Professionals Forum Meeting - September 16, 2025 September 16, 2025
The Federal Cybersecurity & Privacy Professionals Forum is an informal group sponsored by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to promote the sharing of system security and privacy information among...
Special Topics on Privacy and Public Auditability — Event 8 September 18, 2025
Event theme: Experimenting with implementations of PEC primitives Featured topics: Private Set Intersection (PSI), Zero-Knowledge Proof (ZKP), Threshold BLS Signatures. Structure: Welcome/introduction; two invited talks;...
Sixth PQC Standardization Conference September 24, 2025 - September 26, 2025
Code of Conduct for NIST Meetings NIST plans to hold the 6th PQC Standardization Conference from September 24–26, 2025, in Gaithersburg, Maryland. In August 2024, we published the first three post-quantum cryptographic...
Semiconductor Traceability and Provenance Workshop October 21, 2025
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) will host the Semiconductor Traceability and Provenance Workshop on Tuesday, October 21, 2025, at its campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland. This in-person, one-day...

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