Special Publication (NIST SP)

NIST 2025 Rapid Microbial Testing Methods Workshop Report

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

Jason Kralj, Kirsten Parratt, Tyler Laird, Stephanie Servetas, Nancy Lin, Dawn Henke, Scott Jackson

In 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)-led Rapid Microbial Testing Methods (RMTM) Consortium was established to develop standards...

Evidence Management Steering Committee Report: Expanded Bibliography

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

NIST/NIJ Evidence Management Steering Committee

In 2018 in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assembled a group of...

Guidelines for Media Sanitization

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Eric Hibbard

Media sanitization refers to a process that renders access to target data on the media infeasible for a given level of effort. This guide will assist...

Evidence Management Steering Committee Report: Results of the 2021 National Evidence Handlers Survey

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

NIST/NIJ Evidence Management Steering Committee

In 2018 in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assembled a group of...

Report from the 2023 NIST-Hosted Workshop on Collaborative Efforts to Enable Adoption of Rapid Microbial Testing Methods for Advanced Therapy Products

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

Stephanie Servetas, Dawn Henke, Jason Kralj, Kirsten Parratt, Scott Jackson, Nancy Lin

On April 25, 2023, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) hosted a one-day hybrid workshop focused on bringing together organizations and...

Evidence Management Steering Committee Report: Opportunities to Strengthen Evidence Management Processes

September 26, 2025

Author(s)

NIST/NIJ Evidence Management Steering Committee

In 2018 in conjunction with the National Institute of Justice (NIJ), the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) assembled a group of...

Face Recognition Technology Evaluation (FRTE): Preparation of Compact Face Images for 2D Barcodes

September 25, 2025

Author(s)

Patrick Grother, Mei Ngan, Austin Hom

Compact face photographs, stored and digitally signed in 2D barcodes, form a low-cost tamper-resistant identity credential. The cryptographic signature allows...

Recommendation for Random Bit Generator (RBG) Constructions

September 25, 2025

Author(s)

Elaine Barker, John Kelsey, Kerry McKay, Allen Roginsky, Meltem Sonmez Turan

The NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-90 series of documents supports the generation of high-quality random bits for cryptographic and non-cryptographic use. SP...

NIST 2024 Rapid Microbial Testing Methods Workshop Report

September 25, 2025

Author(s)

Jason Kralj, Nancy Lin, Kirsten Parratt, Stephanie Servetas, Dawn Henke, Scott Jackson

The NIST-led Rapid Microbial Testing Methods (RMTM) Consortium launched in 2020 to develop standards and measurement-based solutions to advance the use of RMTMs...

Material Challenges in Developing a Sustainable Metal Processing Infrastructure - Workshop Report

September 23, 2025

Author(s)

Andrew Iams, James Zuback, Mark Stoudt, Carelyn Campbell

As metals and manufacturing industries continue to transition towards sustainable and circular principals, innovations are needed to address a variety of...

NIST Special Publication 800-227, Recommendations for Key-Encapsulation Mechanisms

September 18, 2025

Author(s)

Gorjan Alagic, Elaine Barker, Lidong Chen, Dustin Moody, Angela Robinson, Hamilton Silberg, Noah Waller

A key-encapsulation mechanism (KEM) is a set of algorithms that can be used by two parties under certain conditions to securely establish a shared secret key...

Addressing Visibility Challenges with TLS 1.3 within the Enterprise

September 17, 2025

Author(s)

William Newhouse

The Transport Layer Security (TLS) protocol is widely deployed to secure network traffic. TLS 1.3 has been strengthened so that even if a TLS-enabled server is...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 3666: Albumin and Creatinine in Frozen Human Urine - INCLUDES UPDATES AS OF 07-02-2025

September 2, 2025

Author(s)

Ashley Green, Johanna Camara, Nathanael Heckert

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Standard Reference Material® (SRM®) 3666 Albumin and Creatinine in Frozen Human Urine is a secondary...

Assessing support structures for early career researchers at NIST

August 29, 2025

Author(s)

Justyna Zwolak, Robert Dalka

This report summarizes the findings of the workforce preparation assessment initiative at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) using the...

Certification of 3180 Series Standard Reference Materials® Anions in Solution

August 26, 2025

Author(s)

Brian Lang, Thomas Vetter, John Molloy, Antonio Possolo

The 3180 series Standard Reference Materials (SRMs) are single anion solutions intended for use as primary calibration standards for the quantitative...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI): NIST Special Publication 800-171, Revision 3 Small Business Primer

August 13, 2025

Author(s)

Daniel Eliot

This introductory guide provides small businesses with a high level overview of NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision 3, Protecting Controlled...

NIST SP 800-63-4: Digital Identity Guidelines

August 1, 2025

Author(s)

David Temoshok, Yee-Yin Choong, Ryan Galluzzo, Marie LaSalle, Andrew Regenscheid, Diana Proud-Madruga, Sarbari Gupta, Naomi Lefkovitz

These guidelines cover identity proofing, authentication, and federation of users (such as employees, contractors, or private individuals) interacting with...

NIST SP 800-63B-4:Digital Identity Guidelines - Authentication and Authenticator Management

August 1, 2025

Author(s)

David Temoshok, Yee-Yin Choong, Andrew Regenscheid, Ryan Galluzzo, James L. Fenton, Justin Richer, Naomi Lefkovitz

This guideline focuses on the authentication of subjects who interact with government information systems over networks to establish that a given claimant is a...

NIST SP 800-63C-4:Digital Identity Guidelines - Federation and Assertions

August 1, 2025

Author(s)

Justin Richer, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, David Temoshok, Ryan Galluzzo, Andrew Regenscheid, Yee-Yin Choong

This guideline focuses on the use of federated identity and the use of assertions to implement identity federations. Federation allows a given credential...

NIST SP 800-63A-4:Digital Identity Guidelines - Identity Proofing and Enrollment

August 1, 2025

Author(s)

David Temoshok, Yee-Yin Choong, Ryan Galluzzo, Marie LaSalle, Andrew Regenscheid, Christine Abruzzi, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz

This guideline focuses on identity proofing and enrollment for use in digital authentication. During the process of identity proofing, an applicant provides...

Estimating How Big: The Metric Estimation Game

July 30, 2025

Author(s)

Elizabeth Benham, Kristen Dill, Dinelka Jagoda, Maryanne Amanze, Yoon Thwel

The metric system (International System of Units, SI) is easy to use and learn. The Metric System Estimation Game is a fun, hands-on activity that helps...

NIST SP 1181 - Unit Pricing Guide - A Best Practice Approach to Unit Pricing (2025 Ed.)

July 9, 2025

Author(s)

John McGuire, David Sefcik, Katrice Lippa, Scott Dolan, Isabel Baucom

This guide was developed to provide retailers with information about the best practice requirements for the unit pricing of commodities. The guide consists of...

Guidelines for API Protection for Cloud-Native Systems

June 27, 2025

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Zack Butcher

Modern enterprise IT systems rely on a family of application programming interfaces (APIs) for integration to support organizational business processes. Hence...

A method for assessing and communicating the quality of evidence used in establishing community resilience frameworks

June 18, 2025

Author(s)

Michael Gerst, Maria Dillard

Community resilience refers to the concept of a community being able to prepare, respond, recover, and adapt to disruptions in a way that does not compromise...

Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities (Portuguese translation)

June 16, 2025

Author(s)

Karen Scarfone, Murugiah Souppaya, Donna Dodson

Few software development life cycle (SDLC) models explicitly address software security in detail, so secure software development practices usually need to be...

Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities (French translation)

June 16, 2025

Author(s)

Karen Scarfone, Murugiah Souppaya, Donna Dodson

Few software development life cycle (SDLC) models explicitly address software security in detail, so secure software development practices usually need to be...

Secure Software Development Framework (SSDF) Version 1.1: Recommendations for Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities (Spanish translation)

June 16, 2025

Author(s)

Karen Scarfone, Murugiah Souppaya, Donna Dodson

Few software development life cycle (SDLC) models explicitly address software security in detail, so secure software development practices usually need to be...

Implementing a Zero Trust Architecture: High-Level Document

June 10, 2025

Author(s)

Alper Kerman, Oliver Borchert, Gema Howell, Scott Rose, Murugiah Souppaya, Jason Ajmo, Yemi Fashina, Parisa Grayeli, Joseph Hunt, Jason Hurlburt, Nedu Irrechukwu, Joshua Klosterman, Oksana Slivina, Susan Symington, Allen Tan, Karen Scarfone, William Barker, Peter Gallagher, Aaron Palermo, Madhu Balaji, Adam Cerini, Rajarshi Das, Jacob Barosin, Kyle Black, Scott Gordon, Jerry Haskins, Keith Luck, Dale McKay, Sunjeet Randhawa, Brian Butler, Mike Delaguardia, Matthew Hyatt, Randy Martin, Peter Romness, Corey Bonnell, Dean Coclin, Ryan Johnson, Dung Lam, Darwin Tolbert, Tim Jones, Tom May, Christopher Altman, Alex Bauer, Marco Genovese, Andrew Campagna, John Dombroski, Adam Frank, Nalini Kannan, Priti Patil, Harmeet Singh, Mike Spisak, Krishna Yellepeddy, Nicholas Herrmann, Corey Lund, Farhan Saifudin, Madhu Dodda, Tim LeMaster, Ken Durbin, James Elliott, Earl Matthews, David Pricer, Joey Cruz, Tarek Dawoud, Carmichael Patton, Alex Pavlovsky, Brandon Stephenson, Clay Taylor, Bob Lyons, Vinu Panicker, Peter Bjork, Hans Drolshagen, Imran Bashir, Ali Haider, Nishit Kothari, Sean Morgan, Seetal Patel, Norman Wong, Zack Austin, Shawn Higgins, Rob Woodworth, Mitchell Lewars, Bryan Rosensteel, Don Coltrain, Wade Ellery, Deborah McGinn, Frank Briguglio, Ryan Tighe, Chris Jensen, Joshua Moll, Jason White, Joe Brown, Gary Bradt, Jeffrey Adorno, Syed Ali, Bob Smith

A zero trust architecture (ZTA) enables secure authorized access to enterprise resources that are distributed across on-premises and multiple cloud environments...

Artificial Intelligence in the Fire Service: Considerations for Implementing Artificial Intelligence into Electronic Safety Equipment

June 3, 2025

Author(s)

Christopher Sampl, Clinton Smith, Albert Bahri, David Little, Richard Reel, Ash Liu, Jonathan Hodges, Ryan Falkenstein-Smith

Artificial Intelligence (AI) is becoming more pervasive in society, including public safety. There is a growing need for safety guidelines as AI becomes more...

Guidelines for Seismic Design and Evaluation of Concrete Members Retrofitted using Externally Applied FRP PART I: FRP Jacketed Concrete Columns

May 30, 2025

Author(s)

Sergio Brena, Wassim Ghannoum, Insung kim, Siamak Sattar

This document contains provisions for the design and detailing of fiber reinforced polymer (FRP) systems used to jacket concrete columns in seismic retrofit...