The NIST National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has released a draft publication to help organizations address cybersecurity threats associated with processing genomic data. The public comment period for the draft has been extended to Friday, February 14, 2025.
About the Draft
Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper (CSWP) 35, Cybersecurity Threat Modeling the Genomic Data Sequencing Workflow, evaluates potential threats in a genomic data processing environment using an iterative methodology. It provides an example use case that organizations can adapt to identify cybersecurity threats and apply mitigations in their environments.
While this paper focuses on cybersecurity threats, follow-on work includes privacy modeling for genomic data workflows and development of a Privacy Enhancing Technologies (PETs) testbed for privacy-preserving federated learning (PPFL).
We Want to Hear from You!
We welcome your feedback to help improve this publication. The public comment period for the draft is now open until 11:59 PM (ET) on Friday, February 14, 2025. More details for providing public feedback are within the draft.