NIST Special Publication 800-53 Revision 5, Pre-Draft Call for Comments

Feb 23

From: NIST

Recognizing the importance of maintaining the relevance and currency of Special Publication (SP) 800-53, Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations. NIST will update Revision 4 to Revision 5 during calendar year 2016 beginning with this pre-draft request for comments. NIST seeks the input of SP 800-53 customers to ensure Revision 5 will continue to deliver a comprehensive security and privacy control set that addresses current threats, technologies, and environments of operation while remaining functional and usable.

Pre-draft comments due by April 1, 2016. Email comments to sec-cert@nist.gov

For a full explanation of the Pre-Draft Call for Comments, see http://csrc.nist.gov/groups/SMA/fisma/sp800-53r5_pre-draft.html

CSRC Special Publications (SP) page: http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/PubsSPs.html#800-53r5