{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/nist-ai-800-1-second-draft-cyber-misuse-2025/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "nist-ai-800-1-second-draft-cyber-misuse-2025",
 "date": "2025-01-15",
 "datePrecision": "day",
 "title": "NIST second draft of AI 800-1 on dual-use foundation model misuse adds cybersecurity appendix",
 "lane": "policy",
 "kind": "guidance",
 "summary": "NIST's AI Safety Institute released a second public draft of NIST AI 800-1, voluntary guidelines for managing misuse risk from dual-use foundation models across the lifecycle. NIST says the draft adds detailed evaluation approaches, a marginal-risk framework, and an extensive appendix on cybersecurity misuse risk, and covers both closed and open model developers.",
 "whyItMatters": "It was the main US government draft practice for measuring and mitigating cyber misuse of frontier models before the 2025 policy shift.",
 "actors": [
  "nist",
  "us-caisi"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "standards-and-guidance",
  "capability-evaluation",
  "jailbreaks-and-safeguards"
 ],
 "atlas": [
  "model",
  "access-gate"
 ],
 "artifacts": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/01/updated-guidelines-managing-misuse-risk-dual-use-foundation-models",
   "publisher": "NIST",
   "title": "Updated Guidelines for Managing Misuse Risk for Dual-Use Foundation Models",
   "date": "2025-01-15",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "Second draft adds an extensive appendix on cybersecurity misuse risk alongside chemical and biological guidance; comments were due March 15, 2025.",
   "locator": "NIST news release"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 2,
 "fideQuestions": [],
 "methods": [],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}