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Guide to LTE Security

December 21, 2017
Author(s)
Jeffrey A. Cichonski, Joshua M. Franklin, Michael J. Bartock
Cellular technology plays an increasingly large role in society as it has become the primary portal to the internet for a large segment of the population. One of the main drivers making this change possible is the deployment of 4th generation (4G) Long

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 11-28-2017]

November 28, 2017
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Patrick Viscuso, Gary Guissanie, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle
[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016, updated 02/20/2018): https://doi.org/10.6028/NIST.SP.800-171r1] The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) while residing in nonfederal information systems and organizations is of paramount

SARD: Thousands of Reference Programs for Software Assurance

October 31, 2017
Author(s)
Paul E. Black
A corpus of computer programs with known bugs is useful in determining the ability of tools to find bugs. This article describes the content of NIST's Software Assurance Reference Dataset (SARD), which is a publicly available collection of thousands of

Towards Probabilistic Identification of Zero-day Attack Paths

October 24, 2017
Author(s)
Xiaoyan Sun, Dai Jun, Peng Liu, Anoop Singhal, John Yen
Zero-day attacks continue to challenge the enterprise network security defense. A zero-day attack path is formed when a multi- step attack contains one or more zero-day exploits. Detecting zero-day attack paths in time could enable early disclosure of zero

2016 NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program: Annual Report

October 23, 2017
Author(s)
Patrick D. O'Reilly, Kristina G. Rigopoulos, Gregory A. Witte, Larry Feldman
Title III of the E-Government Act of 2002, entitled the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002, requires NIST to prepare an annual public report on activities undertaken in the previous year, and planned for the coming year, to carry

NSRL Kaspersky dataset documentation

October 23, 2017
Author(s)
Alexander J. Nelson
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) National Software Reference Library (NSRL) has created curated releases of the Reference Data Set (RDS) consisting of hashes of Kaspersky products. This is in response to the DHS directive on

Cloud Security Automation Framework

October 12, 2017
Author(s)
Cihan Tunc, Salim hariri, Mheni Merzouki, Charif Mahmoudi, Frederic J. de Vaulx, Jaafar Chbili, Robert B. Bohn, Abdella Battou
Cloud services have gained tremendous attention as a utility paradigm and have been deployed extensively across a wide range of fields. However, Cloud security is not catching up to the fast adoption of its services and remains one of the biggest

Organizational Practices in Cryptographic Development and Testing

October 9, 2017
Author(s)
Julie Haney, Simson L. Garfinkel, Mary Theofanos
Organizations developing cryptographic products face significant challenges, including usability and human factors, that may result in decreased security, increased development time, and missed opportunities to use the technology to its fullest potential

Cryptocurrency Smart Contracts for Distributed Consensus of Public Randomness

October 7, 2017
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, John M. Kelsey, James Shook
Most modern electronic devices can produce a random number. However, it is dicult to see how a group of mutually distrusting entities can have con dence in any such hardware-produced stream of random numbers, since the producer could control the output to

Towards Detecting Data Integrity Attacks in Smart Grid

October 6, 2017
Author(s)
Linqiang Ge, Wei Yu, Paul Moulema, Guobin Xu, David W. Griffith, Nada T. Golmie
An effective operation of the smart grid relies on the integration of sensing, computing, and communication. Attempting to disrupt the system, an adversary may launch cyber-attacks against the smart grid by compromising components, including meters
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