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NIST is pleased to announce the first official release of the Open Security Controls Assessment Language ( OSCAL), Version 1.0.0 - Milestone 1. The release
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have harnessed the phenomenon of “quantum squeezing” to amplify and measure trillionths
WASHINGTON — Teams of innovators and municipal governments around the world who are using technology to address challenges such as disaster response, energy
An update to one of the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s (NIST) information security documents offers strategies to help protect sensitive
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NIST is seeking comments on Draft NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-171 Revision 2, Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal
Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have developed a new reference material that can be used to identify deadly toxins in
Two New Standards Placed on OSAC Registry The Organization of Scientific Area Committees for Forensic Science (OSAC) is excited to announce the Forensic Science
Attribute-based access control systems rely upon enterprise-specific attributes to both define access control policy rules and enforce the access control
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) has posted two draft Project Descriptions for public comment:
Detecting and Protecting Against Data
The Measurement and Computation of Fire Phenomena (MaCFP) Working Group of the International Association of Fire Safety Science (IAFSS) has released its “
This year’s National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Presidential Innovation Fellow (PIF) is taking on a major role in bridging the gap between
NIST is releasing a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment, Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software
In honor of our colleague, Sharon Nakich, who passed away in March after a short battle with cancer, the FSSB has developed a new peer-to-peer award that is
NIST is releasing a Draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper for public comment, Mitigating the Risk of Software Vulnerabilities by Adopting a Secure Software
As if they were bubbles expanding in a just-opened bottle of champagne, tiny circular regions of magnetism can be rapidly enlarged to provide a precise method
Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and collaborators have demonstrated a compact frequency-comb apparatus that rapidly
Hardware/Server Virtualization is a foundational technology in a cloud computing environment and the hypervisor is the key software in that virtualized
This Bulletin provides an update on forensic science standards that are moving through the development process at Standards Developing Organizations (SDOs), and
32nd Annual FISSEA Conference Agenda We are pleased to share with you our 2019 FISSEA Conference Agenda. Our Keynote speakers: Shayla Treadwell, Director of
Two members of the NIST Flammability Reduction Group (FRG) recently traveled to San Antonio, Texas for the 30th Annual Conference on Recent Advances in Flame
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-64 Revision 2, Security Considerations in the System Development Life Cycle (October 2008), has been withdrawn. It includes
Physicists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have teleported a computer circuit instruction known as a quantum logic operation
More than a dozen chemical blends could serve as alternative refrigerants that won’t heat the atmosphere as much as today’s refrigerants do, or catch fire
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at NIST is seeking comments on a revised draft of the practice guide NIST SP 1800-13, Mobile Application
A draft implementation guide ( NISTIR 8183A) for the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Manufacturing Profile Low Security Level has been developed for managing