NIST SP 800-218A: Operationalizing AI Secure Development in 2026
NIST SP 800-218A turned the SSDF into an AI community profile in July 2024. Eighteen months later, what does real adoption look like for AI software teams?
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NIST SP 800-218A turned the SSDF into an AI community profile in July 2024. Eighteen months later, what does real adoption look like for AI software teams?
On May 5, 2026, NIST's CAISI signed pre-deployment evaluation agreements with Google DeepMind, Microsoft, and xAI, bringing five frontier labs into a government testing program covering cyber, bio, and chemical risk.
Rev 5 controls are the operative baseline, and the SR control family is where most FedRAMP High authorizations are now spending their assessor time in 2026.
NIST released the preliminary draft Cybersecurity Framework Profile for AI (NIST IR 8596) in December 2025, addressing the intersection of AI and cybersecurity from three angles.
NIST finalized ML-KEM, ML-DSA, and SLH-DSA in 2024. Here's what it means for Sigstore, package registry signing, TLS, and the harvest-now-decrypt-later problem.
A practical walkthrough of what NIST Secure Software Development Framework audits look like in 2026, where evidence gaps show up, and how to prepare without burning out engineering.
NIST finalized SP 800-218A on July 26, 2024, augmenting the Secure Software Development Framework with practices specific to generative AI and dual-use foundation models.
After months of processing backlogs and community frustration, NIST announces a new consortium to modernize and sustain the National Vulnerability Database.
NIST SP 800-218 became the de facto baseline for federal software attestation in 2023. Here is how to adopt SSDF v1.1 without drowning in paperwork.
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