Today the National Institute of Standards and Technology
(NIST) published a notice in the Federal Register (82 FR
21980) that it was establishing a technical working group (TWG) to develop
best practices guidelines in selecting and deploying industrial wireless
solutions within industrial environments such as process control and
manufacturing.
The TWG would be established under the Networked
Control System Group (NCSG). NIST is asking for
organizations that wish to participate in the TWG to notify them within the
next 180 days. No further details are provided in the notice.
The NCSG does have a web page established for their Wireless
Systems for Industrial Environments (WSIE) program. That page does briefly
acknowledge that one of the problems facing the adoption of wireless control
systems technology is cybersecurity. A separate
web page for the new TWG does not mention cybersecurity at all. It is not
clear at this point whether or not cybersecurity concerns will be addressed in
the best practice guidelines being developed.
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NIST has an ongoing cybersecurity project specifically aimed at industrial control systems. Cybersecurity is not being directly address by the wireless project although the wireless guidelines will definitely cover security by referencing NIST SP 800-82 and the cybersecurity framework. We have an adjacent project at NIST that directly covers cybersecurity for industrial control systems, and Keith Stouffer is the project leader for that effort.
https://www.nist.gov/programs-projects/cybersecurity-smart-manufacturing-systems
https://www.nist.gov/publications/industrial-control-system-cybersecurity-performance-testbed
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