{
 "license": "CC-BY-4.0",
 "attribution": "Fide AI, Agentic Cyber Explorer",
 "url": "https://agentic-cyber-explorer.pages.dev/events/nist-cyber-ai-profile-preliminary-draft-2025/",
 "asOf": "2026-09-26",
 "id": "nist-cyber-ai-profile-preliminary-draft-2025",
 "date": "2025-12-16",
 "datePrecision": "day",
 "title": "NIST releases preliminary draft Cyber AI Profile (IR 8596) under CSF 2.0",
 "lane": "policy",
 "kind": "framework",
 "summary": "NIST published a preliminary draft Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence, aligned with CSF 2.0. It is organized around three focus areas: securing AI systems, using AI for cyber defense, and thwarting AI-enabled cyberattacks, with comments due January 30, 2026.",
 "whyItMatters": "It is the vehicle through which NIST intends to fold AI-enabled attack and defense, including agents, into the CSF outcomes organizations already report against.",
 "actors": [
  "nist"
 ],
 "topics": [
  "standards-and-guidance",
  "autonomous-defense"
 ],
 "atlas": [],
 "artifacts": [],
 "sources": [
  {
   "url": "https://www.nist.gov/news-events/news/2025/12/draft-nist-guidelines-rethink-cybersecurity-ai-era",
   "publisher": "NIST",
   "title": "Draft NIST Guidelines Rethink Cybersecurity for the AI Era",
   "date": "2025-12-16",
   "type": "primary",
   "accessed": "2026-09-25"
  }
 ],
 "keyFacts": [
  {
   "fact": "Three focus areas: Secure (AI system components), Defend (AI-enabled cyber defense), Thwart (resilience against AI-enabled attacks); 45-day comment period to January 30, 2026.",
   "locator": "NIST news release"
  },
  {
   "fact": "NIST says more than 6,500 people joined the community of interest for the profile.",
   "locator": "NIST news release"
  }
 ],
 "significance": 3,
 "fideQuestions": [
  "FID-076"
 ],
 "methods": [],
 "review": "assistant-drafted",
 "addedOn": "2026-09-25"
}