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Transitioning to the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 2

September 10, 2018
Author(s)
David A. Waltermire, Jessica Fitzgerald-McKay
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) version 2 (v2) automates endpoint posture information collection and the incorporation of that information into network defense capabilities using standardized protocols. SCAP v2 expands the endpoint types

IT Asset Management : Financial Services

September 7, 2018
Author(s)
James M. Banoczi
While a physical asset management system can tell you the location of a computer, it cannot answer questions like, “What operating systems are our laptops running?” and “Which devices are vulnerable to the latest threat?” An effective IT asset management

Quantifying Information Exposure in Internet Routing

September 6, 2018
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Assane Gueye, Christopher A. Schanzle
Data sent over the Internet can be monitored and manipulated by intermediate entities in the data path from the source to the destination. For unencrypted communications (and some encrypted communications with known weaknesses), eavesdropping and man-in

Metrics-Driven Evaluation of Cybersecurity for Critical Railway Infrastructure

August 23, 2018
Author(s)
Himanshu Neema, Bradley Potteiger, Xenofon Koutsoukos, CheeYee Tang
In the past couple of years, railway infrastructure has been growing more connected, resembling more of a traditional Cyber-Physical System [1] model. Due to the tightly coupled nature between the cyber and physical domains, new attack vectors are emerging

Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
Gavin W. O'Brien, Nate V. Lesser, Brett Pleasant, Sue Wang, Kangmin Zheng, Colin Bowers, Kyle Kamke
Health care providers increasingly use mobile devices to receive, store, process, and transmit patient clinical information. According to our own risk analysis, discussed here, and in the experience of many health care providers, mobile devices can present

User Context: An Explanatory Variable in Phishing Susceptibility

July 15, 2018
Author(s)
Kristen K. Greene, Michelle P. Steves, Mary Theofanos, Jennifer A. Kostick
Extensive research has been performed to examine the effectiveness of phishing defenses, but much of this research was performed in laboratory settings. In contrast, this work presents 4.5 years of workplace-situated, embedded phishing email training

Identity and Access Management for Electric Utilities

July 13, 2018
Author(s)
James J. McCarthy
To protect power generation, transmission, and distribution, energy companies need to control physical and logical access to their resources, including buildings, equipment, information technology (IT), and operational technology (OT). They must

Modeling and Mitigating the Insider Threat of Remote Administrators in Clouds

July 10, 2018
Author(s)
Nawaf Alhebaishi, Lingyu Wang, Sushil Jajodia, Anoop Singhal
As today's cloud providers strive to attract customers with better services and less downtime in a highly competitive market, they increasingly rely on remote administrators including those from third party providers for fulfilling regular maintenance

Deep Learning-Based Intrusion Detection With Adversaries

July 9, 2018
Author(s)
Zheng Wang
Deep neural networks have demonstrated their effectiveness in most machine learning tasks, with intrusion detection included. Unfortunately, recent research found that deep neural networks are vulnerable to adversarial examples in the image classification

Baseline Tailor

June 26, 2018
Author(s)
Joshua Lubell
Baseline Tailor is an innovative web application for users of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework and Special Publication (SP) 800-53. Baseline Tailor makes the information in these widely referenced

Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information

June 13, 2018
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Y. Pillitteri
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the federal government to successfully conduct its assigned

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 thus enables multiple computing stacks (made of an operating system (OS) and application programs)

Protecting Software Integrity Through Code Signing

May 23, 2018
Author(s)
David A. Cooper, Leonard Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information found in the white paper Security Considerations for Code Signing, which describes features and architectural relationships of typical code signing solutions that are widely deployed today. The paper also defines

Mobile Application Security Exercise (MASE): Final Report

May 22, 2018
Author(s)
Michael A. Ogata
Mobile applications have become an integral part in the mission of the federal government and public safety. There exist many techniques that seek to assure these applications are free from software bugs and vulnerabilities. However, a unified list of

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 platform is a collection of fundamental hardware and firmware components needed to boot and

Improving the Trustworthiness of E-Mail, and Beyond!

April 25, 2018
Author(s)
Scott W. Rose, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information found in NIST SP 1800-6: Domain Name System-Based Electronic Mail Security, which describes a security platform for trustworthy email exchanges across organizational boundaries.
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