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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Information and Communications Technology (ICT) Risk Outcomes

Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Barrett, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Greg Witte, Robert Gardner, Julie Chua
The increasing frequency, creativity, and severity of technology attacks means that all enterprises should ensure that information and communications technology

Enterprise Impact of Information & Communications Technology Risk

Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Larry Feldman, Daniel Topper, Greg Witte, Karen Scarfone, Robert Gardner, Julie Chua
All enterprises should ensure that information and communications technology (ICT) risk receives appropriate attention within their enterprise risk management

NIST SI Units Card Deck

Author(s)
Dinelka Jagoda, Elizabeth Benham
Welcome to the SI Units Card Deck! This interactive educational activity offers a fun way for students to enhance their understanding of the International

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2386 Avocado Powder

Author(s)
Melissa M. Phillips, Laura Wood, Joseph Browning, George Caceres, Grace Hahm, Mahboubeh Hanaee, Abigail Lee, Karen Murphy, Rabia Oflaz, Rick L. Paul, Benjamin Place, Jeanice "Brown Thomas ", James H. Yen
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released SRM 2386 Avocado Powder which has value assignment for over 70 analytes. This

Guide to Operational Technology (OT) Security

Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Michael Pease, CheeYee Tang, Timothy Zimmerman, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Suzanne Lightman, Adam Hahn, Stephanie Saravia, Aslam Sherule, Michael Thompson
This document provides guidance on how to secure operational technology (OT) while addressing their unique performance, reliability, and safety requirements. OT

Mobile Device Security: Bring Your Own Device (BYOD)

Author(s)
Gema Howell, Katie Boeckl, Nakia R. Grayson, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jason Ajmo, R. Eugene Craft, Milissa McGinnis, Kenneth Sandlin, Oksana Slivina, Julie Snyder, Paul Ward
Many organizations provide employees the flexibility to use their personal mobile devices to perform work-related activities. An ineffectively secured personal

De-Identifying Government Datasets: Techniques and Governance

Author(s)
Simson Garfinkel, Joseph Near, Aref Dajani, Phyllis Singer, Barbara Guttman
De-identification is a general term for any process of removing the association between a set of identifying data and the data subject. This document describes

Report from the 2022 NIST Rapid Microbial Testing Methods (RMTM) Workshop

Author(s)
Stephanie Servetas, Nancy Lin, Nadratun Chowdhury, Scott Jackson, Jason Kralj, Sheng Lin-Gibson, Melody Sanders, Tara Eskandari
Safety and quality of advanced therapies, including cellular, gene, and tissue-engineered medical products, is paramount for success of these products

CMVP Approved Security Functions

Author(s)
Alexander Calis
The approved security functions listed in this publication replace the ones listed in International Organization for Standardization/International

2022 NIST Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities

Author(s)
Lisa Warfield, Tina G. Butcher, Richard A. Harshman, Jan Konijnenburg, Gloria Diane Lee, David Sefcik, Juana Williams, Katrice Lippa
The NIST Office of Weights and Measures (OWM) presents its first report 2022 NIST Annual Summary of U.S. Legal Metrology Activities report. This report includes

SATE VI Report: Bug Injection and Collection

Author(s)
Aurelien Delaitre, Paul E. Black, Damien Cupif, Guillaume Haben, Loembe Alex-Kevin, Vadim Okun, Yann Prono, Aurelien Delaitre
The SATE VI report presents the results of a security-focused bug finding evaluation exercise carried out from 2018 to 2023 on various code bases using static

2022 Cybersecurity & Privacy Annual Report

Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Greg Witte
During Fiscal Year 2022 (FY 2022) – from October 1, 2021, through September 30, 2022 –the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy

NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF): Version 1.5

Author(s)
Robert Hanisch, Debra L. Kaiser, Alda Yuan, Andrea Medina-Smith, Bonnie C Carroll, Eva Campo
The NIST Research Data Framework (RDaF) is a multifaceted and customizable tool that aims to help shape the future of open data access and research data

Guidance on Contactless Friction Ridge Image Compression, v1.0

Author(s)
John M. Libert, Shahram Orandi, Kenneth Ko, Bruce Bandini, John Grantham, Craig I. Watson
Nascent technologies show promise in collecting 500 ppi fingerprints in a contactless fashion while yielding various improvements in the collection process over

ITS10 Conference Digest

Author(s)
Christopher W. Meyer, Kathryn Miller, Weston L. Tew, Howard W. Yoon
The 10th International Temperature Symposium (ITS10) was held in Anaheim California on April 3rd to 7th, 2023. More than 180 abstracts were received and