NIST Released the following Draft Special
Publications (SP):
(1) Draft Special Publication (SP) 800-175B, Guideline for Using
Cryptographic Standards in the Federal Government: Cryptographic Mechanisms
(2) Draft SP 800-46 Revision 2, Guide to Enterprise Telework, Remote
Access, and Bring Your Own Device (BYOD) Security
(3) Draft SP 800-114 Revision 1, User’s Guide to Telework and Bring Your
Own Device (BYOD) Security
(4) Draft SP 800-154, Guide to
Data-Centric System Threat Modeling, and
(5) PRE-DRAFT SP 800-53 (Revision 5), Security and Privacy Controls for
Federal Information Systems and Organizations
All 4 of these Draft and 1 PRE-Draft SPs are
available for public comment and can be found on the NIST CSRC website.
See below for further details on these 5 draft documents.
1. Draft SP 800-175B:
Information and links to Draft SP 800-175B can be found on the NIST CSRC Draft
publications page. Below is the link to this Draft:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-175B
Deadline
to submit comments: Friday,
April 29, 2016
Email
comments or questions about this draft document to:
SP800-175@nist.gov
2. Draft SP 800-46 Revision 2
Information and links to Draft SP 800-46 Revision 2 can be found on the
NIST CSRC Draft publications page. There is also a comment template available
to use to submit comments. Below is the link to this Draft:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-46r2
Deadline
to submit comments: April
15, 2016
Email
comments or questions about this draft document to:
800-46comments@nist.gov
NIST
Public Affairs Office issued a press release about this draft and also for
Draft SP 800-114 Revision 1:
http://www.nist.gov/itl/csd/attackers-honing-in-on-teleworkers-how-organizations-can-secure-their-datata.cfm
3. Draft SP 800-114 Revision 1
Information and links to Draft SP 800-114 Revision 1 can be found on the
NIST CSRC Draft publications page. There is also a comment template available
to use to submit comments. Below is the link to this Draft:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-114r1
Deadline
to submit comments: April
15, 2016
Email
comments or questions about this draft document to:
800-114comments@nist.gov
4. Draft SP 800-154
Information and links to Draft SP 800-154 can be found on the NIST CSRC Draft
publications page. There is also a comment template available to use to submit
comments. Below is the link to this Draft:
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsDrafts.html#800-154
Deadline
to submit comments: April
15, 2016
Email
comments or questions about this draft document to:
800-154comments@nist.gov
5. (PRE-DRAFT) NIST SP 800-53 Revision 5
Full
details can be found on the CSRC website:
http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/fisma/sp800-53r5_pre-draft.html
Please
respond by April 1st 2016
to the call for comments to:
sec-cert@nist.gov
**Important
Note: There is no actual document for Revision 5 as
yet. To submit your comments / suggestions, you will need to refer to and
reference from SP 800-53 Revision 4 to formulate your feedback to potentially
help improve this document to a Revision 5. Click the 1st link
above to this Pre-Draft to learn all the details on this exercise.