DISA News
Announcements:
- Launched new Acquisition Decisions LinkedIn newsletter
- Strong push on skills-based hiring for cyber roles
- Moving beyond resumes to validated technical assessments
- Accelerated hiring tied to live events (e.g., TechNet Cyber)
- Heavy promotion of TechNet Cyber 2026
- Ongoing emphasis on strengthening industry partnerships through increased transparency and accessibility for vendors via new comms channels
- A shift towards modernizing industry engagement, hiring of cyber talent, and communication of opportunities
Security Technical Implementation Guide Updates:
- None
NIST News
Updates & Announcements:
Special Publications, Interagency Reports, & Cybersecurity White Papers:
- SP 800-234, High-Performance Computing (HPC) Security Overlay
- Pre-Draft Call for Comments on Revision to SP 800-38F, Recommendation for Block Cipher Modes of Operation: Methods for Key Wrapping (2012)
- Draft IR 8323 Revision 2, Foundational PNT Profile: Applying the Cybersecurity Framework for the Responsible Use of Positioning, Navigation, and Timing (PNT)
- Call for Comments on SP 800-52 Rev. 2, Guidelines for the Selection, Configuration, and Use of Transport Layer Security (TLS) Implementations (2019)
- SP 800-70r5 (Revision 5), National Checklist Program for IT Products – Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers
- SP 800-172r3 (Revision 3), Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information
- SP 800-172Ar3 (Revision 3), Assessing Enhanced Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information
- Draft SP 800-228A, Guidelines for the Secure Deployment of RESTful Web APIs
- IR 8500A IPD, Blockchain-Based Secure Software Assets Management (BloSS@M)
- IPD of SP 1800-41, Responding to and Recovering from a Cyber Attack: Cybersecurity for the Manufacturing Sector
- SP 800-238, Fiscal Year 2025 Annual Report for NIST Cybersecurity and Privacy Program
- NIST IR 8320E IPD, Hardware-Enabled Security: Confidential Computing of Data in Cloud Workloads
NIAP News
Updates & Announcements:
- NIAP CCEVS Policy #29: Addendum for Certificate Length Updates
Protection Profile Announcements:
- Published – Virtualization Version 2.0
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