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Publish Date: 2026-04-23 18:18:00<\/a><\/p>\n

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology\u2019s cybersecurity hub is organizing a new project focused on helping critical infrastructure organizations gain better visibility into their operational technology environments.
\nCherilyn Pascoe, director of NIST\u2019s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, said the NCCoE is launching the OT cybersecurity project after working on several efforts related to specific critical infrastructure sectors.
\nThe center in recent years has worked on a water and wastewater cybersecurity project, and more recently, it released a draft document to help transit agencies implement NIST\u2019s cybersecurity framework, among many other initiatives.
\n\u201cWe started to think about, let\u2019s step back. Let\u2019s think about, what is the one project that we could run,\u201d Pascoe said April 16 at GovCIO\u2019s \u201cCyberScape\u201d conference in Arlington, Va. \u201cWe had several conversations with different critical infrastructure sectors and asked them, \u2018What are your biggest challenges?\u2019 And across the board, the largest challenge that came up was asset management, asset visibility.\u201d]]><\/p>\n

The OT cybersecurity project will be a \u201cfoundational topic,\u201d Pascoe said.
\n\u201cIt certainly does not mean that it is an easy topic,\u201d she added. \u201cEspecially in OT and industrial control system environments, visibility is very difficult. You\u2019re dealing with legacy systems, distributed environments.\u201d
\nThe new project will demonstrate \u201chow to do asset visibility in an OT environment,\u201d Pascoe said.
\nThe NIST project comes amid longstanding concerns about hackers targeting OT environments to physically disrupt critical infrastructure systems. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency last year joined with several other U.S. and international cyber agencies in urging critical infrastructure organizations to inventory their OT assets.
\nCyber experts have routinely warned that critical infrastructure organizations, especially smaller water utilities and others with fewer resources, need help increasing their cyber defenses against nation-state attacks.
\n\u201cI would say we need to start even at the very beginning,\u201d Tatyana Bolton, executive director of the Operational Technology Cyber Coalition, said during a House Homeland Security Committee hearing last year. \u201cMost sectors have not done an OT asset inventory. So they don\u2019t even know what they have.\u201d
\nMore recently, advances in artificial intelligence have sparked concerns that hackers will be able to use offensive AI tools to quickly uncover cyber vulnerabilities in critical systems.]]><\/p>\n

Pascoe said NIST would be launching a consortium with industry and government agencies to move the OT visibility project forward.
\n\u201cOur hope is to be able to demonstrate, how do you leverage existing standards, existing frameworks to be able to enhance visibility?\u201d Pascoe said. \u201cHow do you build an architecture using commercially available technologies that you can buy off the shelf to be able to enhance visibility within your environments? Maybe we\u2019ll be looking at how to use AI to be able to enhance that as well, depending on what the community\u2019s interests are.\u201d
\nNIST advances AI security efforts
\nThe NCCoE has also been expanding its work on AI security. The center is currently reviewing comments on plans to develop a \u201cCybersecurity Framework Profile for AI.\u201d
\n\u201cThis is taking the NIST cybersecurity framework and enterprise based risk management framework and tailoring it to identify the unique challenges associated with AI,\u201d Pascoe said. \u201cSecuring AI is one pillar, another is the use of AI for cybersecurity. And our third pillar looking at what an organization can do to be able to defend yourself against AI enabled threats.\u201d
\nPascoe said NIST\u2019s secure software development consortium is also reviewing how AI is increasingly being used to develop and review software products.
\nMeanwhile, the NCCoE is also reviewing feedback on an \u201cAccelerating the Adoption of Software and AI Agent Identity and Authorization\u201d concept paper. The goal is to help organizations securely manage AI agents that are increasingly being rolled out by corporations and other enterprises.
\nNIST\u2019s Center for AI Standards and Innovation in February also launched an \u201cAI Agent Standards Initiative.\u201d CAISI\u2019s press release says feedback on the AI agent identity and authorization concept paper is informing its work on the overall standards initiative.
\n\u201cI\u2019m very optimistic when it comes to AI for cybersecurity and want to continue working with the community to be able to develop guidance, to securely use AI going forward,\u201d Pascoe said.
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