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A Guide to the Selection of Anti-Virus Tools and Techniques

December 1, 1992
Author(s)
William T. Polk, Lawrence E. Bassham
Computer viruses continue to pose a threat to the integrity and availability of computer systems. This is especially true for users of personal computers. A variety of anti-virus tools are now available to help manage this threat. These tools use a wide

Automated Tools for Testing Computer System Vulnerability

December 1, 1992
Author(s)
William T. Polk
Computer security "incidents" occur with alarming frequency. The incidents range from direct attacks by both hackers and insiders to automated attacks such as network worms. Weak system controls are frequently cited as the cause, but many of these

Assessing Federal and Commercial Information Security Needs (IT)

November 1, 1992
Author(s)
David F. Ferraiolo, D M. Gilbert, N Lynch
In a cooperative effort with government and industry, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) conducted a study to assess the current and future information technology (IT) security needs of the commercial, civil, and military sectors

Role-Based Access Controls

October 13, 1992
Author(s)
David F. Ferraiolo, David R. Kuhn
While Mandatory Access Controls (MAC) are appropriate for multilevel secure military applications, Discretionary Access Controls (DAC) are often perceived as meeting the security processing needs of industry and civilian government. This paper argues that

Threat Assessment of Malicious Code and External Attacks

October 1, 1992
Author(s)
Lawrence E. Bassham, William T. Polk
As a participant in the U. S. Army Computer Vulnerability/Survivability Study Team, the National Institute of Standards and Technology has been tasked with providing an assessment of the threats associated with commercial hardware and software. This

Security in ISDN

September 1, 1991
Author(s)
William E. Burr
The Integrated Services Digital Network (ISDN) standards will provide worldwide digital communications service and will play a key role in the transition to electronic documents and business transactions. ISDN has been developed with little thought to

Computer Security: Selected Articles

April 1, 1991
Author(s)
Marianne M. Swanson, Elizabeth B. Lennon
This National Institute of Standards and Technology Internal Report (NISTIR) presents nine articles which represent a wide spectrum of computer security information. The articles were selected by the staff of the Computer Security Division, Computer

Public-Key Cryptography

April 1, 1991
Author(s)
James R. Nechvatal
This publication presents a state-of-the-art survey of public-key cryptography, circa 1988-1990, and covers the following topics: 1) the theory of public-key cryptography; 2) comparisons to conventional (secret-key) cryptography; 3) a largely self
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