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Scaling the Phish: Advancing the NIST Phish Scale

July 3, 2021
Author(s)
Fernando Barrientos, Jody Jacobs, Shanee Dawkins
Organizations use phishing training exercises to help employees defend against the phishing threats that get through automatic email filters, reducing potential compromise of information security for both the individual and their organization. These

NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

June 30, 2021
Author(s)
Bradley Moore, Beverly Trapnell, James F. 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

A Decade of Reoccurring Software Weaknesses

June 24, 2021
Author(s)
Assane Gueye, Carlos Galhardo, Irena Bojanova, Peter Mell
The Common Weakness Enumeration (CWE) community publishes an aggregate metric to calculate the 'Most Dangerous Software Errors.' However, the used equation highly biases frequency and almost ignores exploitability and impact. We provide a metric to

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, Tim 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
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