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Introducing "Insecure IT"

January 20, 2009
Author(s)
David R. Kuhn, Hart Rossman, Simon Liu
This article introduces a new department for IT Professional that will cover security in IT systems, ranging from desktops to global e-commerce networks. Our goal is to offer ideas to improve IT security, both by looking at ways it can go wrong as well as

Symmetric Key Injection onto Smart Cards

December 22, 2008
Author(s)
David A. Cooper, William I. MacGregor
This paper describes architectures for securely injecting secret keys onto smart cards. Specifically, this paper details key injection architectures based on the identity credentials available on the Personal Identify Verification (PIV) Card. The primary

Property Verification for Generic Access Control Models

December 20, 2008
Author(s)
Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn, Tao Xie
To formally and precisely capture the security properties that access control should adhere to, access control models are usually written to bridge the rather wide gap in abstraction between policies and mechanisms. In this paper, we propose a new general

A Threat Analysis on UOCAVA Voting Systems

December 19, 2008
Author(s)
Andrew R. Regenscheid, Nelson E. Hastings
This report contains the results of NIST s research into technologies to improve the voting process for United States citizens living overseas. It splits the overseas voting process into three stages: voter registration and ballot request, blank ballot

Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

December 18, 2008
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes information disseminated in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-115, Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, which was written by Karen

Two New Efficient CCA-Secure Online Ciphers : MHCBC and MCBC

December 17, 2008
Author(s)
Mridul Nandi
Online ciphers are those ciphers whose ciphertexts can be computed in an online manner. HCBC1 and HCBC2 are two known examples of Hash Cipher Block Chaining online ciphers. HCBC1 is secure against chosen plaintext adversary (or called CPA-secure) whereas

Security Challenges in Seamless Mobility - How to ``Handover'' the Keys?

November 30, 2008
Author(s)
Katrin Hoeper, Lidong Chen, Antonio Izquierdo Manzanares, Nada T. Golmie
In this paper, we discuss key management challenges for seamless handovers across heterogeneous wireless networks. We focus on fast access authentication protocols that allow expedited network entry by utilizing existing keying material from previous

A Recommendation for the Use of PIV Credentials in Physical Access Control Systems (PACS)

November 20, 2008
Author(s)
William I. MacGregor, Ketan L. Mehta, David A. Cooper, Karen A. Scarfone
This document provides best practice guidelines for integrating the PIV Card with the physical access control systems (PACS) that authenticate the cardholders in Federal facilities. Specifically, this document recommends a risk-based approach for selecting

Recommendation for Key Derivation Using Pseudorandom Functions

November 12, 2008
Author(s)
Lidong Chen
This Recommendation specifies techniques for the derivation of additional keying material from a secret key, either established through a key establishment scheme or shared through some other manner, using pseudorandom functions.

Security Considerations in the System Development Life Cycle

October 16, 2008
Author(s)
Richard L. Kissel, Kevin M. Stine, Matthew A. Scholl, Hart Rossman, J Fahlsing, Jessica Gulick
The purpose of this guideline is to assist agencies in building security into their IT development processes. This should result in more cost-effective, risk-appropriate security control identification, development, and testing. This guide focuses on the

Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

September 30, 2008
Author(s)
Murugiah P. Souppaya, Karen A. Scarfone
The purpose of this document is to assist organizations in planning and conducting technical information security tests and examinations, analyzing findings, and developing mitigation strategies. The guide provides practical recommendations for designing

On the shortest linear straight-line program for computing linear forms

August 29, 2008
Author(s)
Joan Boyar, Philip Matthews, Rene Peralta
We study the complexity of the Shortest Linear Program (SLP) problem, which is to the number of linear operations necessary to compute a set of linear forms. SLP is shown to be NP-hard. Furthermore, a special case of the corresponding decision problem is

Forensic Filtering of Cell Phone Protocols

August 27, 2008
Author(s)
Aurelien M. Delaitre, Wayne Jansen
Phone managers are non-forensic software tools designed to carry out a range of tasks for the user, such as reading and updating the contents of a phone, using one or more of the communications protocols supported by the phone. Phone managers are sometimes

Evidence-Based, Good Enough, and Open

August 4, 2008
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone
One of the holy grail questions in computer security is how secure are my organization systems? This paper describes our new approach to answering this question. This approach is distinguished from previous efforts in three ways: 1) uses evidence-based

Guide to General Server Security

July 25, 2008
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Wayne Jansen, Miles C. Tracy
The purpose of this document is to assist organizations in understanding the fundamental activities performed as part of securing and maintaining the security of servers that provide services over network communications as a main function. The document

Guide to Securing Legacy IEEE 802.11 Wireless Networks

July 25, 2008
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Derrick Dicoi, Matt Sexton, Cyrus Tibbs
The purpose of this document is to provide guidance to organizations in securing their legacy Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers (IEEE) 802.11 wireless local area networks (WLAN) that cannot use IEEE 802.11i. The document provides an
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