Conformance testing

News and Updates

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NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

March 22, 2018

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate to multiple tenants to ensure maximum use

Updated NIST Software Uses Combination Testing to Catch Bugs Fast and Easy

November 9, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer system testing tool that can cut costs

NIST Publishes Approved Testing Procedures for Electronic Health Records

August 17, 2010

In efforts to help the nation's health care industry make the transition to the digital age in an effective and meaningful fashion, the National Institute of

Projects and Programs

Digital Thread for Manufacturing

Ongoing

The Digital Thread for Manufacturing project will deliver methods, protocols, and tools for developing, conformance testing, increasing user-awareness, and

Software Performance Project

Completed

NOTE: This work was succeeded by the Software Metrology Project Software Metrology: Helping physical scientists and computer scientists understand one another a

Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems

Ongoing

Smart grid cybersecurity must address both inadvertent compromises of the electric infrastructure, due to user errors, equipment failures, and natural disasters

National Checklist Program

Ongoing

NIST maintains the National Checklist Repository, which is a publicly available resource that contains information on a variety of security configuration

Publications

National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Cryptographic and Security Testing

September 13, 2022

Author(s)

Bradley Moore, James F. Fox, Beverly Trapnell, Carolyn French

NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory

CMVP Approved Security Functions: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759

May 20, 2022

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer, Alexander Calis

The approved security functions listed in this publication replace the ones listed in ISO/IEC 19790 Annex C and ISO/IEC 24759 6.15, within the context of the

CMVP Approved Sensitive Security Parameter Generation and Establishment Methods: CMVP Validation Authority Updates to ISO/IEC 24759

May 20, 2022

Author(s)

Kim B. Schaffer, Alexander Calis

The approved sensitive security parameter generation and establishment methods listed in this publication replace the ones listed in ISO/IEC 19790 Annex D and

Client-side XSLT, Validation and Data Security

November 22, 2021

Author(s)

Wendell Piez

Client-side XSLT (CSX) is often used in scenarios where data (in XML) from a remote server is provided to a user who processes it in some way, for example