The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is preparing draft cybersecurity guidance specific to artificial intelligence, Nextgov reporting shows. Victoria Pillitteri, manager of NIST’s Security Engineering and Risk Management Group, told Nextgov she expects a cybersecurity framework profile for AI “sometime this summer,” pending agency approval. NIST’s Center for AI Standards and Innovation (CAISI) is developing control-overlay guidance tailored to different AI system classes, with a predictive-AI overlay due this summer and an agentic-systems overlay expected in late summer to early fall, per Pillitteri. Pillitteri told Nextgov NIST plans to issue the guidelines sequentially in draft and aims to finalize the guidance by 2027.
