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Review of the Advanced Encryption Standard

July 23, 2021
Author(s)
Nicky Mouha, Morris Dworkin
The field of cryptography continues to advance at a very rapid pace, leading to new insights that may impact the security properties of cryptographic algorithms. The Crypto Publication Review Board ("the Board") has been established to identify

Managing the Security of Information Exchanges

July 20, 2021
Author(s)
Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Andrew Regenscheid
An organization often has mission and business-based needs to exchange (share) information with one or more other internal or external organizations via various information exchange channels. However, it is recognized that the information being exchanged

Status Report on the Second Round of the NIST Lightweight Cryptography Standardization Process

July 20, 2021
Author(s)
Meltem Sonmez Turan, Kerry McKay, Donghoon Chang, Cagdas Calik, Lawrence E. Bassham, Jinkeon Kang, John M. Kelsey
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is in the process of selecting one or more authenticated encryption and hashing schemes suitable for constrained environments through a public, competition-like process. In February 2019, 57

Contextualized Filtering for Shared Cyber Threat Information

July 18, 2021
Author(s)
Athanasios Dimitriadis, Christos Prassas, Jose L. Flores, Boonserm Kulvatunyou, Nenad Ivezic, Dimitris Gritzalis, Ioannis Mavridis
Cyber threat information sharing is an imperative process towards achieving collaborative security, but it poses several challenges. One crucial challenge is the plethora of shared threat information. Therefore, there is a need to advance filtering of such

NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

June 30, 2021
Author(s)
Bradley Moore, Beverly Trapnell, James Fox, Carolyn French
NIST Handbook 150-17 presents the technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Cryptographic and Security Testing (CST) program. It is intended for

Hardware-Enabled Security: Container Platform Security Prototype

June 17, 2021
Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Jerry Wheeler, Tim Knoll, Uttam Shetty, Ryan Savino, Joseprabu Inbaraj, Stefano Righi
In today's cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have significantly increased, hacking has become industrialized, and most security control implementations are not coherent or consistent. The foundation of any data center or edge computing

Securing Small-Business and Home Internet of Things (IoT) Devices: Mitigating Network-Based Attacks Using Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD)

May 26, 2021
Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Douglas Montgomery, William Polk, Mudumbai Ranganathan, Donna Dodson, William Barker, Steve Johnson, Ashwini Kadam, Craig Pratt, Darshak Thakore, Mark Walker, Eliot Lear, Brian Weis, Dean Coclin, Avesta Hojjati, Clint Wilson, Tim Jones, Adnan Baykal, Drew Cohen, Kevin Yeich, Yemi Fashima, Parisa Grayeli, Joshua Harrington, Joshua Klosterman, Blaine Mulugeta, Susan Symington, Jaideep Singh
The goal of the Internet Engineering Task Force's Manufacturer Usage Description (MUD) specification is for Internet of Things (IoT) devices to behave as intended by the manufacturers of the devices. MUD provides a standard way for manufacturers to

A Historical and Statistical Study of the Software Vulnerability Landscape

April 18, 2021
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Peter Mell
Understanding the landscape of software vulnerabilities is key for developing effective security solutions. Fortunately, the evaluation of vulnerability databases that use a framework for communicating vulnerability attributes and their severity scores

Recovering the Key from the Internal State of Grain-128AEAD

April 3, 2021
Author(s)
Donghoon Chang, Meltem Sonmez Turan
Grain-128AEAD is one of the second-round candidates of the NIST lightweight cryptography standardization process. There is an existing body of third-party analysis on the earlier versions of the Grain family that provide insights on the security of Grain

NIST Test Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Cards Version 2

April 2, 2021
Author(s)
David Cooper
In order to facilitate the development of applications and middleware that support the Personal Identity Verification (PIV) Card, NIST has developed a set of test PIV Cards and a supporting public key infrastructure (PKI). This set of test cards includes

Atividades Fundamentais de Ciberseguranca para Fabricantes de Dispositivos IoT

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, Matt Smith, Karen Scarfone
Os dispositivos da Internet das Coisas (IoT) muitas vezes não possuem recursos de segurança cibernética de acordo com os dispositivos que os seus clientes — organizações e indivíduos — querem usar para ajudar a mitigar riscos de segurança cibernética. Os

ISCMA: An Information Security Continuous Monitoring Program Assessment

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Kelley L. Dempsey, Chad Baer, Ron Rudman, Robert Niemeyer, Susan Urban
This publication describes an example methodology for assessing an organization's Information Security Continuous Monitoring (ISCM) program. It was developed directly from NIST guidance and is applicable to any organization, public or private. It can be

Linha de Base do Nucleo de Recursos de Ciberseguranca de Dispositivos IoT

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, Matt Smith, Karen Scarfone
Os recursos de cibersegurança dos dispositivos são funções que os dispositivos de computação fornecem através dos seus próprios meios técnicos (ex: hardware e software do dispositivo). Esta publicação define uma linha de base dos recursos de cibersegurança

Referencia basica de las capacidades de ciberseguridad de los dispositivos de IoT

March 31, 2021
Author(s)
Michael Fagan, Katerina N. Megas, Matt Smith, Karen Scarfone
Las capacidades de ciberseguridad de dispositivo son características o funciones de ciberseguridad que los dispositivos informáticos proporcionan por sus propios medios técnicos (es decir, el hardware y el software del dispositivo). Esta publicación define

Securing Property Management Systems

March 30, 2021
Author(s)
Bill Newhouse
Hotels have become targets for malicious actors wishing to exfiltrate sensitive data, deliver malware, or profit from undetected fraud. Property management systems, which are central to hotel operations, present attractive attack surfaces. This example

Consideraciones para la gestion de riesgos a la ciberseguridad y la privacidad de internet de las cosas (IoT)

March 29, 2021
Author(s)
Katie Boeckl, Michael Fagan, Bill Fisher, Naomi Lefkovitz, Katerina N. Megas, danna o'rourke, Karen Scarfone, Benjamin Piccarreta, Ellen Nadeau
La internet de las cosas (IoT) es un conjunto de diversas tecnologías que evolucionan y se difunden con rapidez, y que interactúan con el mundo físico. Muchas organizaciones no se dan cuenta del gran número de dispositivos de IoT que ya están utilizando

Consideracoes para Gerenciar Riscos de Privacidade e Seguranca Cibernetica na Internet das Coisas (IoT)

March 29, 2021
Author(s)
Katie Boeckl, Michael Fagan, Bill Fisher, Naomi Lefkovitz, Katerina N. Megas, Ellen Nadeau, Benjamin Piccarreta, Karen Scarfone, Danna O'Rourke
A Internet das Coisas (IoT) é uma coleção em rápida evolução e expansão de diversas tecnologias que interagem com o mundo físico. Muitas organizações não estão necessariamente cientes do grande número de dispositivos IoT que já estão usando e como eles

Designing Trojan Detectors in Neural Networks Using Interactive Simulations

February 20, 2021
Author(s)
Peter Bajcsy, Nicholas J. Schaub, Michael P. Majurski
This paper addresses the problem of designing trojan detectors in neural networks (NNs) using interactive simulations. Trojans in NNs are defined as triggers in inputs that cause misclassification of such inputs into a class (or classes) unintended by the

Enhanced Security Requirements for Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information: A Supplement to NIST Special Publication 800-171

February 9, 2021
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Victoria Pillitteri, Gary Guissanie, Ryan Wagner, Richard Graubart, Deborah Bodeau
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 essential
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