Organizations increasingly use Internet of Things (IoT) products for the mission benefits they can offer, but care must be taken in the acquisition and implementation of this equipment. Understanding that an IoT product is a system element facilitates an understanding of how the IoT product must be considered in the risk management process. The acquisition and integration of an IoT product into an information system may alter the system’s risk assessment based on new risks introduced by the product. An updated risk assessment may require additional or new controls to be selected and implemented in the system. The guidelines in this publication focus on establishing product cybersecurity requirements to support security controls. This publication provides general considerations of how IoT products may impact an information system’s risk assessment and subsequent allocation of controls that may be necessary. Readers are encouraged to reference SP 800-30, Revision 1, Guide for

The protection of controlled unclassified information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the Federal Government to successfully conduct its essential missions and functions. This publication provides federal agencies with assessment procedures for the enhanced security requirements in NIST SP 800-172. The assessment procedures are flexible and can be tailored to the needs of federal agencies and assessors. Security requirement assessments can be conducted as (1) self-assessments; (2) independent, third-party assessments; or (3) government-sponsored assessments. The assessments can be conducted with varying degrees of rigor based on federal agency-defined depth and coverage attributes. The findings and evidence produced during the assessments can be used to facilitate risk-based decisions by organizations related to the security requirements.

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the Federal Government to successfully conduct its essential missions and functions. This publication provides federal agencies with a set of recommended enhanced security requirements for providing additional protection to the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of CUI when it is resident in a nonfederal system and organization and associated with a critical program or high value asset (HVA). It is designed as a supplement to NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 to protect against advanced persistent threats (APTs). The security requirements apply to the components of nonfederal systems that process, store, or transmit CUI or that provide protection for such components only when selected and required by federal agencies to manage risks to CUI. The enhanced security requirements are i

Internet of Things (IoT) products often lack product cybersecurity capabilities their customers—organizations and individuals—can use to help mitigate their cybersecurity risks. Manufacturers can help their customers by improving the securability of their IoT products by providing necessary cybersecurity functionality and by providing customers with the cybersecurity-related information they need. This publication describes recommended activities related to cybersecurity that manufacturers should consider performing before their IoT products are sold to customers. These foundational cybersecurity activities can help manufacturers lessen the cybersecurity-related efforts needed by customers, which in turn can reduce the prevalence and severity of compromises.