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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management [includes updates as of 03-02- 2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Elaine M. Newton, Ray Perlner, Andrew Regenscheid, William E. Burr, Justin P. Richer, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or

Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing [includes updates as of 03-02-2020]

March 2, 2020

Author(s)

Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen K. Greene, Mary Theofanos

These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Systems and Organizations

February 21, 2020

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle, Gary Guissanie

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

Certification of Standard Reference Material® 2925: Recombinant Human Serum Albumin Solution (Primary Reference Calibrator for Urine Albumin) (Frozen)

February 19, 2020

Author(s)

Ashley B. Green, David M. Bunk, Nien F. Zhang, Wendell Alejo

This Standard Reference Material (SRM) is intended primarily for use in the preparation of calibration solutions for a candidate reference measurement procedure

The NIST Cloud Federation Reference Architecture

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Robert B. Bohn, Craig A. Lee, Martial Michel

This document presents the NIST Federated Cloud Reference Architecture model. This actor/role- based model used the guiding principles of the NIST Cloud

CELL-FREE (Comparable Engineered Living Lysates for Research Education and Entrepreneurship) Workshop Report

February 13, 2020

Author(s)

Elizabeth A. Strychalski, Eugenia F. Romantseva

The CELL-FREE Workshop sought to identify and prioritize actionable steps towards more reproducible and comparable cell-free systems for practical applications

Assessing the Predictive Capability for Real-Scale Residential Upholstered Furniture Mock-Up Fires using Cone Calorimeter Measurements. Part 1: Real-Scale Experiments

February 10, 2020

Author(s)

William M. Pitts, Martin Werrel, Marco G. Fernandez, Mary A. Long, Evan A. Eisenberg, James J. Filliben, Cory D. Runyon

This is the first of three reports describing a study designed to assess the feasibility of utilizing small-scale measurements in a cone calorimeter as inputs

Workshop on Applied Category Theory: Bridging Theory and Practice

February 7, 2020

Author(s)

Spencer J. Breiner, Blake S. Pollard, Eswaran Subrahmanian

This report presents the summary of a workshop held at NIST on March 15-16, 2018 on the topic of applied category theory (ACT). The meeting had two main goals:

2019 Global City Teams Challenge: Smart and Secure Cities and Communities Challenge Expo

January 31, 2020

Author(s)

Sokwoo Rhee

This report highlights the GCTC/SC3 Expo event held on July 11-12, 2019 to foster discussion of and collaboration to address the cybersecurity and privacy

NIST Special Publication 2100-03: Proceedings of the International Conference on Atom-Probe Tomography and Microscopy (APT&M 2018)

December 23, 2019

Author(s)

Keith Knipling, Frederick Meisenkothen, Eric B. Steel

The biennial International Field Emission Symposium (IFES), recently renamed Atom Probe Tomography and Microscopy (APT&M), has been in existence since 1952. The

Research Needs Concerning the Performance of Fiber Reinforced (FR) Composites Retrofit Systems for Buildings and Infrastructure

December 20, 2019

Author(s)

David Goodwin, Siamak Sattar, Jazalyn Dukes, Jae H. Kim, Li Piin Sung, Chiara C. Ferraris

Resilient Interdomain Traffic Exchange: BGP Security and DDos Mitigation

December 17, 2019

Author(s)

Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas C. Montgomery

In recent years, numerous routing control plane anomalies, such as Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) prefix hijacking and route leaks, have resulted in denial-of

Economics of Interoperability in the Context of Smart Grid Architectures

December 16, 2019

Author(s)

Cheyney O'Fallon, Avi Gopstein

Technological change in the electric power sector has progressed rapidly and there now is need for the development and evaluation of new smart grid

Election Results Common Data Format Specification Revision 2.0

December 3, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This publication describes an election results common data format specification for pre-election setup information and post-election results reporting. It

2019 NCNR Annual Report

December 1, 2019

Author(s)

Steven R. Kline

Developing Cyber Resilient Systems: A Systems Security Engineering Approach

November 27, 2019

Author(s)

Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Y. Pillitteri, Richard Graubart, Deborah Bodeau, Rosalie McQuaid

This publication is used in conjunction with ISO/IEC/IEEE 15288:2015, Systems and software engineering--Systems life cycle processes, NIST Special Publication

Cast Vote Records Common Data Format Specification Version 1.0

November 19, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This document is a specification for a common data format for cast vote records (CVR) produced by vote-capture devices such as ballot scanners. It supports the

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 2, Big Data Taxonomies

November 18, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with

Voter Records Interchange Common Data Format Specification Version 1.0

November 14, 2019

Author(s)

John P. Wack

This document presents a specification for voter records data interchange related to voter registration, i.e., registration requests from online voter

Notes from the NIST Research Innovation to Implementation in Forensic Science Symposium (RI2I)

November 5, 2019

Author(s)

Richard R. Cavanagh

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 9, Adoption and Modernization

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Russell Reinsch, Claire C. Austin

The potential for organizations to capture value from Big Data improves every day as the pace of the Big Data revolution continues to increase, but the level of

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 8, Reference Architecture Interfaces

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Gregor von Laszewski

This document summarizes interfaces that are instrumental for the interaction with Clouds, Containers, and High Performance Computing (HPC) systems to manage

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 7, Standards Roadmap

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Russell Reinsch, David Boyd, Carl Buffington

While opportunities exist with Big Data, the data can overwhelm traditional technical approaches. To advance progress in Big Data, the NIST Big Data Public

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 6, Reference Architecture

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, David Boyd, Orit Levin

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 3, Use Cases and General Requirements

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Geoffrey Fox

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 1, Definitions

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Nancy Grady

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. The growth of data is

NIST Big Data Interoperability Framework: Volume 4, Security and Privacy

October 21, 2019

Author(s)

Wo L. Chang, Arnab Roy, Mark Underwood

Big Data is a term used to describe the large amount of data in the networked, digitized, sensor-laden, information-driven world. While opportunities exist with

Large Outdoor Fire Modeling (LOFM) Workshop Summary Report

October 11, 2019

Author(s)

Randall McDermott, Nelson P. Bryner, Jon Heintz

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Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems

October 11, 2019

Author(s)

Arnold Johnson, Kelley L. Dempsey, Ronald S. Ross, Sarbari Gupta, Dennis Bailey

[Includes updates as of October 10, 2019] Guide for Security-Focused Configuration Management of Information Systems provides guidelines for organizations

Obstacles to data sharing in public safety applications require more than technical solutions alone

September 30, 2019

Author(s)

Britta M. Voss

First responders today can leverage large quantities of multimedia data from a variety of sources within and outside their agencies, and the scope of this data