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SP 800-73-6, Interfaces for Personal Identity Verification: Part 1 – PIV Card Application Namespace, Data Model and RepresentationInitial Working Draft

NIST has released initial working drafts of proposed updates to the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) standards to support the use of post-quantum cryptography (PQC).…

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Celebrating 1 Year of CSF 2.0

It has been one year since the release of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 ! To make improving your security posture even easier,…

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Small Businesses Create Big Impact: NIST Celebrates 2025 National Small Business Week

This week we’re celebrating National Small Business Week—which recognizes and celebrates the small and medium-sized business (SMB) community’s significant contributions to the nation. SMBs…

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Five Years Later: Evolving IoT Cybersecurity Guidelines

The Background…and NIST’s Plan for Improving IoT Cybersecurity The passage of the Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity Improvement Act in 2020 marked a pivotal…

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Cybersecurity and AI: Integrating and Building on Existing NIST Guidelines

What is NIST up to? On April 3, 2025, NIST hosted a Cybersecurity and AI Profile Workshop at our National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence…

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The Impact of Artificial Intelligence on the Cybersecurity Workforce

The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity ( NICE Framework) was revised in November 2020 as NIST Special Publication 800-181 rev.1 to enable more effective…

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Nine Years and Counting: NICE RAMPS Communities Keep Expanding Opportunities in Cybersecurity Work and Learning

A lot has changed in America’s cybersecurity workforce development ecosystem since 2016: employment in cybersecurity occupations has grown by more than 300,000 [1]; the…

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Let’s get Digital! Updated Digital Identity Guidelines are Here!

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…

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Sharpening the Focus on Product Requirements and Cybersecurity Risks: Updating Foundational Activities for IoT Product Manufacturers

Update: The comment period for your feedback on the second public draft of NIST IR 8259 has been extended through December 10, 2025. Over…

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A NICE Retrospective on Shaping Cybersecurity’s Future

Rodney Petersen has served as the Director of NICE at the National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) for the past eleven years where…

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Digital Identities: Getting to Know the Verifiable Digital Credential Ecosystem

Understanding mDL credential formats Standards in the VDC Ecosystem In our first blog post in this series, we highlighted that VDCs can represent a…

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Celebrating Data Privacy Week with NIST’s Privacy Engineering Program

Grab your party hats – it’s Data Privacy Week! Data Privacy Week is a global initiative led by the National Cybersecurity Alliance to spread…

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