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Special Publication (NIST SP)

USGv6 Profile Supplier's Declaration of Conformity

Author(s)
Douglas Montgomery, Michayla Newcombe
The USGv6 Profile SDoC captures the results of conformance, interoperability and functional tests conducted and provides traceability back to the accredited

Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework)

Author(s)
Rodney Petersen, Danielle Santos, Karen Wetzel, Matthew Smith, Greg Witte
This publication from the National Initiative for Cybersecurity Education (NICE) describes the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework), a

Recommendation for Stateful Hash-Based Signature Schemes

Author(s)
David Cooper, Daniel Apon, Quynh H. Dang, Michael S. Davidson, Morris Dworkin, Carl Miller
This recommendation specifies two algorithms that can be used to generate a digital signature, both of which are stateful hash-based signature schemes: the

Security Guidelines for Storage Infrastructure

Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Doron Pinhas
Storage technology, just like its computing and networking counterparts, has evolved from traditional storage service types, such as block, file, and object

Production and Analysis of RM 8403 Cocoa Flavanol Extract

Author(s)
Catherine A. Rimmer, Katrice A. Lippa, James H. Yen, Ugo Bussy, Gregory Hewitt, Nicholas P. Anderson, Catherine Kwik-Uribe
NIST Reference Material 8403 is intended for use in harmonizing methods for the determination of cocoa flavanols monomers and their oligomers up to a degree of

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 955d, Toxic Elements and Metabolites in Frozen Human Blood

Author(s)
Lee L. Yu, Karen E. Murphy, Colleen E. Bryan Sallee, Thomas W. Vetter, Robert C. Hagwood, George C. Caceres, Stephen E. Long, J M. Jarrett, M A. Franklin, J Castro Georgi, D M. Jones, Robert Jones, Z Li, Y L. Sommer, D S. Tevis, K Wallon, C D. Ward, M Maras, S Erdahl, C Gilmer, M Wermers, H Woldeysus, K F. Mehigan, M Morrissette, Christopher D. Palmer, Patrick J. Parsons
Standard Reference Material (SRM) 955d is intended for use in validating analytical methods for measuring toxic elements and mercury species in human blood, and

Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled (COPE)

Author(s)
Gema E. Howell, Kaitlin R. Boeckl, Naomi B. Lefkovitz, Ellen M. Nadeau, Joshua M. Franklin, Behnam Shariati, Jason Ajmo, Christopher J. Brown, Spike E. Dog, Frank Javar, Michael Peck, Kenneth F. Sandlin
Mobile devices provide access to vital workplace resources while giving employees the flexibility to perform their daily activities. Securing these devices is

Report of the 104th National Conference on Weights and Measures

Author(s)
Yvonne A. Branden, Tina G. Butcher, Richard A. Harshman, Lisa Warfield, Gloria D. Lee, John W. Barton
The 104th Annual Meeting of the National Conference on Weights and Measures (NCWM) was held July 14 - 18, 2019, at the Hyatt Regency Milwaukee Hotel, Milwaukee

2019 NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program Annual Report

Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina G. Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
During Fiscal Year 2019 (FY 2019), from October 1, 2018 through September 30, 2019, the NIST Information Technology Laboratory (ITL) Cybersecurity and Privacy

Polycyclic Aromatic Hydrocarbon Structure Index

Author(s)
Lane C. Sander, Stephen A. Wise
NIST Special Publication (SP) 922 is an aid in the identification of the chemical structures of polycyclic aromatic hydrocarbons (PAHs). The Structure Index

Zero Trust Architecture

Author(s)
Scott W. Rose, Oliver Borchert, Stuart Mitchell, Sean Connelly
Zero trust (ZT) is the term for an evolving set of cybersecurity paradigms that move defenses from static, network- based perimeters to focus on users, assets

General Access Control Guidance for Cloud Systems

Author(s)
Chung Tong Hu, Michaela Iorga, Wei Bao, Ang Li, Qinghua Li, Antonios Gouglidis
This document presents cloud access control characteristics and a set of general access control guidance for cloud service models: IaaS (Infrastructure as a

Polymer Surface/Interface Consortium 2018 Workshop Report

Author(s)
Ronald S. Lankone, Li Piin Sung, David G. Goodwin, Andrew Fairbrother
The Polymer Surface/Interface (PSI) consortium held a two-day workshop at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in Gaithersburg, MD on

Metrological Tools for the Reference Materials and Reference Instruments of the NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

Author(s)
Carlos R. Beauchamp, Johanna Camara, Jennifer Carney, Steven J. Choquette, Kenneth D. Cole, Paul C. DeRose, David L. Duewer, Michael Epstein, Margaret C. Kline, Katrice Lippa, Enrico Lucon, Karen W. Phinney, Maria Polakoski, Antonio Possolo, Katherine E. Sharpless, John R. Sieber, Blaza Toman, Michael R. Winchester, Donald Windover
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), formerly the National Bureau of Standards, was established by the U.S. Congress in 1901 and charged

Guide to IPsec VPNs

Author(s)
Elaine B. Barker, Quynh H. Dang, Sheila E. Frankel, Karen Scarfone, Paul Wouters
Internet Protocol Security (IPsec) is a widely used network layer security control for protecting communications. IPsec is a framework of open standards for