NIST Publications Raw: 596 Cybersecurity PDFs

596 raw PDF documents downloaded from the NIST Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC). The dataset serves as the source material for the NIST cybersecurity training dataset and the HackIDLE-NIST-Coder model. It was uploaded by ethanolivertroy and last updated on 2025-10-22.

Use Cases

• Fine-tuning language models for cybersecurity code generation based on the raw PDF content.
• Creating structured training datasets for cybersecurity education using the source documents.
• Analyzing the evolution of NIST cybersecurity guidance based on the collection of publications.
• Extracting technical standards and best practices for security tool development from the PDFs.

Strengths

• Contains 596 original PDF documents from an authoritative source (NIST CSRC).
• Serves as the complete source data for a known downstream training dataset.

Limitations

• Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download.
• Row count is unknown, which may limit suitability assessment.
• Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download.

Provenance

Source

NIST Computer Security Resource Center (CSRC)

Collection Method

Downloaded raw PDF files.

Freshness

Last updated 2025-10-22 23:35:59; freshness should be verified.