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Ransomware Risk Management: A Cybersecurity Framework Profile

February 23, 2022
Author(s)
Bill Fisher, Murugiah Souppaya, William Barker, Karen Scarfone
Ransomware is a type of malicious attack where attackers encrypt an organization's data and demand payment to restore access. In some instances, attackers may also steal an organization's information and demand an additional payment in return for not

Making Semantic Structures Explicit: Developing and Evaluating Tools and Techniques to Support Understanding of Large Cybersecurity Corpora

February 4, 2022
Author(s)
Ira Monarch, Jacob Collard, Sangjin Shin, Eswaran Subrahmanian, Talapady N. Bhat, Ram D. Sriram
This report describes the adaptation, composition and use of natural language processing, machine learning and other computational tools to help make implicit informational structures in very large technical corpora explicit. The tools applied to the

Recommended Criteria for Cybersecurity Labeling of Consumer Software

February 4, 2022
Author(s)
Michael Ogata, Amy Phelps, Julie Haney
Executive Order (EO) 14028, "Improving the Nation's Cybersecurity," tasks the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), in coordination with the Federal Trade Commission (FTC) and other agencies, to initiate pilot programs for cybersecurity

Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors

January 24, 2022
Author(s)
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), Hildegard Ferraiolo, Andrew Regenscheid, Salvatore Francomacaro, David Cooper, Ketan Mehta, Annie W. Sokol, David Temoshok, Gregory Fiumara, Justin Richer, James L. Fenton, Johnathan Gloster, nabil anwer
FIPS 201 establishes a standard for a Personal Identity Verification (PIV) system (Standard) that meets the control and security objectives of Homeland Security Presidential Directive-12 (HSPD-12). It is based on secure and reliable forms of identity

Advantage of Machine Learning over Maximum Likelihood in Limited-Angle Low-Photon X-Ray Tomography

January 20, 2022
Author(s)
Zhen Guo, Jungki Song, George Barbastathis, Michael Glinsky, Courtenay Vaughan, Kurt Larson, Bradley Alpert, Zachary H. Levine
Limited-angle X-ray tomography reconstruction is an ill-posed inverse problem in general. Especially when the projection angles are limited and the measurements are taken in a photon-limited condition, reconstructions from classical algorithms such as

Guide to Bluetooth Security

January 19, 2022
Author(s)
John Padgette, John Bahr, Mayank Batra, Rhonda Smithbey, Lily Chen, Karen Scarfone
Bluetooth wireless technology is an open standard for short-range radio frequency communication used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks (WPANs), and has been integrated into many types of business and consumer devices. This publication

Identifying Tactics of Advanced Persistent Threats with Limited Attack Traces

December 16, 2021
Author(s)
Khandakar Ashrafi Akbar, Yigong Wang, Md Islam, Anoop Singhal, Latifur Khan, Bhavani Thuraisingham1
The cyberworld being threatened by continuous imposters needs the development of intelligent methods for identifying threats while keeping in mind all the constraints that can be encountered. Advanced persistent threats (APT) have become an emerging issue

Input/Output Check Bugs Taxonomy: Injection Errors in Spotlight

November 17, 2021
Author(s)
Irena Bojanova, Carlos Eduardo Cardoso Galhardo, Sara Moshtari
In this work, we present an orthogonal classification of input/output check bugs, allowing precise structured descriptions of related software vulnerabilities. We utilize the Bugs Framework (BF) approach to define two language-independent classes that

Identifying and Estimating Cybersecurity Risk for Enterprise Risk Management

November 12, 2021
Author(s)
Kevin Stine, Stephen Quinn, Nahla Ivy, Matthew Barrett, Greg Witte, Larry Feldman, Robert Gardner
This document supplements NIST Interagency or Internal Report 8286, Integrating Cybersecurity and Enterprise Risk Management (ERM), by providing additional detail regarding risk guidance, identification, and analysis. This report offers examples and
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