United States of America: Opened consultation on draft NIST guidelines on cybersecurity and privacy of genomic data

On 16 December 2024, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)'s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) opened a consultation on guidelines addressing cybersecurity and privacy risks associated with processing genomic data until 30 January 2025. The first publication, Genomic Data Cybersecurity and Privacy Frameworks Community Profile (Genomic Data Profile), provides a risk-based approach to managing cybersecurity and privacy risks in processing genomic data. The second publication, Cybersecurity Threat Modeling the Genomic Data Sequencing Workflow, evaluates potential threats in genomic data, citing an example use case, and demonstrates an approach to identify cybersecurity threats and mitigations.