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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information

June 13, 2018

Author(s)

Ron Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Pillitteri

The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and...

Standard Reference Data Workshop Report

June 12, 2018

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Neil Alderoty, Richard R. Cavanagh, Barbara Guttman, Robert J. Hanisch, Adam G. Morey, Jeanita Pritchett, Yuri Ralchenko, Stacy S. Schuur, William E. Wallace

On October 17, 2017, the ODI sponsored a day-long Standard Reference Data Workshop. More than 120 NIST staff members and associates from four NIST laboratories...

Security Recommendations for Server-based Hypervisor Platforms

June 7, 2018

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

The Hypervisor platform is a collection of software modules that provides virtualization of hardware resources (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage) and...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 06-07-2018]

June 7, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Patrick Viscuso, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 2 (February 2020): https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171r2] The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI)...

Assessing the chemical and colloidal stability of functionalized gold nanoparticles

June 5, 2018

Author(s)

Tae Joon Cho, Vincent Hackley

Among the many classes of engineered nanomaterials, gold nanoparticles (GNPs) are one of the most widely studied and utilized nanoscale platforms for biomedical...

Quick Start Guide for Populating Mobile Test Devices

May 10, 2018

Author(s)

Richard Ayers, Benjamin R. Livelsberger, Barbara Guttman

This guide provides procedures for documenting and populating various data elements typically found within the contents of a mobile device, e.g., mobile phone...

Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines

May 4, 2018

Author(s)

Andrew R. Regenscheid

This document provides technical guidelines and recommendations supporting resiliency of platform firmware and data against potentially destructive attacks. The...

Magnetic Resonance Imaging Biomarker Calibration Service: Proton Spin Relaxation Times

May 3, 2018

Author(s)

Michael A. Boss, Andrew M. Dienstfrey, Zydrunas Gimbutas, Kathryn E. Keenan, Jolene D. Splett, Karl F. Stupic, Stephen E. Russek

This document describes the calibration service to measure proton spin relaxation times, T1 and T2, of materials used in phantoms (calibration artifacts) to...

Cloud Computing Service Metrics Description

April 24, 2018

Author(s)

Frederic J. de Vaulx, Eric D. Simmon, Robert B. Bohn

With cloud computing in the mainstream, there is a preponderance of cloud based services in the market and the choices for consumers increase daily. However...

Codes for the Identification of Federal and Federally-Assisted Organizations

April 19, 2018

Author(s)

Hildegard Ferraiolo

The Homeland Security Presidential Directive HSPD-12 called for new standards to be adopted governing the interoperable use of identity credentials to allow...

Recommendation for Pair-Wise Key-Establishment Schemes Using Discrete Logarithm Cryptography

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen, Allen L. Roginsky, Apostol T. Vassilev, Richard Davis

This Recommendation specifies key-establishment schemes based on the discrete logarithm problem over finite fields and elliptic curves, including several...

Recommendation for Key-Derivation Methods in Key-Agreement Schemes

April 16, 2018

Author(s)

Elaine B. Barker, Lidong Chen

This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of keying material from a shared secret established during a key-establishment scheme defined in...

Technical Review of NISTs Free Standard Reference Data Products

April 9, 2018

Author(s)

Debra L. Kaiser, Robert J. Hanisch

Over the past two years, the ODI has undertaken an ambitious effort to modernize the SRD Program. This report covers one aspect of this modernization effort, a...

Report on the NIST/DHS/FDA Workshop: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications

April 5, 2018

Author(s)

Scott Jackson, Jason Kralj, Nancy Lin

The 2017 NIST/DHS/FDA Workshop: Standards for Pathogen Detection for Biosurveillance and Clinical Applications brought together subject matter experts from the...

Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems [including updates as of 3-21-2018]

March 21, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Michael McEvilley, Janet C. Oren

With the continuing frequency, intensity, and adverse consequences of cyber-attacks, disruptions, hazards, and other threats to federal, state, and local...

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2372a Human DNA Quantitation Standard

March 19, 2018

Author(s)

Erica L. Romsos, Margaret C. Kline, Natalia Farkas, David L. Duewer, Blaza Toman

Standard Reference Material (SRM) 2372a is intended for use in the value assignment of human genomic deoxyribonucleic acid (DNA) forensic quantitation materials...

Fog Computing Conceptual Model

March 14, 2018

Author(s)

Michaela Iorga, Larry Feldman, Robert Barton, Michael J. Martin, Nedim S. Goren, Charif Mahmoudi

Managing the data generated by Internet of Things (IoT) sensors and actuators is one of the biggest challenges faced when deploying an IoT system. Traditional...

Workshop Report: Research Roadmap for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials in the Future

March 8, 2018

Author(s)

Rick Davis, Mauro Zammarano, Nathan D. Marsh

NIST hosted workshop, Future Needs for Reducing the Fire Hazard of Materials, provided an opportunity for worlds experts to come together to discuss the...

Evaluation of Cloud Computing Services Based on NIST SP 800-145

February 23, 2018

Author(s)

Eric Simmon

This document provides clarification for qualifying a given computing capability as a cloud service by determining if it aligns with the NIST definition of...

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 02-20-2018]

February 20, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Patrick Viscuso, Gary Guissanie, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle

[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016, updated 06/07/2018): https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171r1] The protection of Controlled Unclassified...

National Checklist Program for IT Products--Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers

February 15, 2018

Author(s)

Stephen Quinn, Murugiah Souppaya, Melanie R. Cook, Karen A. Scarfone

A security configuration checklist is a document that contains instructions or procedures for configuring an information technology (IT) product to an...

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.3

February 14, 2018

Author(s)

David A. Waltermire, Stephen D. Quinn, Harold Booth, Karen Scarfone, Dragos Prisaca

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by which software flaw and security...

SCAP 1.3 Component Specification Version Updates: An Annex to NIST Special Publication 800-126 Revision 3

February 14, 2018

Author(s)

Harold Booth, David A. Waltermire, Mark L. Badger, Melanie R. Cook, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone

The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a multi-purpose framework of component specifications that support automated configuration, vulnerability...

Future Generation Wireless R&D Gaps Report

February 5, 2018

Author(s)

Nada T. Golmie

This report identifies and describes several of the most significant gaps within various components of the wireless industry. This report is intended to serve...

SRM NIST Standard Reference Materials Catalog January 2018

February 1, 2018

Author(s)

Gina Montgomery

Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers

January 23, 2018

Author(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli

The Hypervisor is a collection of software modules that provides virtualization of hardware resources (such as CPU/GPU, Memory, Network and Storage) and thus...

Domain Name System-Based Electronic Mail Security

January 15, 2018

Author(s)

Scott W. Rose, Karen M. Waltermire, Santos Jha, Chinedum Irrechukwu, William C. Barker

This document describes a security platform for trustworthy email exchanges across organizational boundaries. The project includes reliable authentication of...

Recommendation for the Entropy Sources Used for Random Bit Generation

January 10, 2018

Author(s)

Meltem Sonmez Turan, Elaine Barker, John Kelsey, Kerry McKay, Mary L. Baish, Mike Boyle

This Recommendation specifies the design principles and requirements for the entropy sources used by Random Bit Generators, and the tests for the validation of...

Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems [including updates as of 1-03-2018]

January 3, 2018

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Michael McEvilley, Janet C. Oren

With the continuing frequency, intensity, and adverse consequences of cyber-attacks, disruptions, hazards, and other threats to federal, state, and local...

A workshop report on Electron Microscopy Frontiers: Challenges and Opportunities

December 21, 2017

Author(s)

June W. Lau, John E. Bonevich, Andrew A. Herzing, Ann C. Chiaramonti Debay, Robert R. Keller

For two days beginning on March 8, 2017, a planning workshop entitled Electron Microscopy Frontiers: Opportunities and Challenges was hosted by the Material...

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