SP 800-70 Rev. 5 Initial Public Draft, National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

NIST established the National Checklist Program (NCP) to facilitate the generation of security checklists from authoritative sources, centralize the location of checklists, and make checklists broadly accessible. This publication explains how to use the NCP to find and retrieve checklists and describes the policies, procedures, and general requirements for participation in the NCP. The links below will contain more recent versions of those forms and documents.

SP 800-70 Rev. 4, National Checklist Program for IT Products: Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

This publication provides a high-level overview of the NIST checklist program and then provides more detailed information for users and developers. The forms and other documents listed below on this page are to be used for actual participation in the checklist program. The links below will contain more recent versions of those forms and documents.

A zipped package of all forms and documents needed for participation in the checklist program. This package does not include the 800-70 publication, which can be downloaded separately.

Version 2.3

This form contains the requirements for participating in the checklist program and for using the checklist program logo on IT product advertising materials; it must be signed and returned to NIST.

Version 1.5