Cybersecurity Dive January 23, 2026
As the agency’s vulnerability database buckles under a flood of submissions, it’s planning to shift some responsibilities to other parties.
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is reevaluating its role in analyzing software vulnerabilities as it tries to meet skyrocketing demand for vulnerability analysis and reassure partners about the government’s continuing commitment to the program that catalogs those flaws.
“We’ve been doing more and more thinking about the [National Vulnerability Database] and, strategically, how we’re planning on moving forward,” Jon Boyens, the acting chief of NIST’s Computer Security Division, told members of the agency’s Information Security and Privacy Advisory Board during a quarterly meeting on Thursday.
NIST’s strategic review of the NVD — which adds detailed information to flaws...
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