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Improving Security and Software Management through the use of SWID Tags

July 13, 2016
Author(s)
David A. Waltermire, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarized the information presented in NISTIR 8060, "Guidelines for the Creation of Interoperable Software Identification (SWID) Tags". The publication provides an overview of the capabilities and usage of SWID tags as part of a

Addressing Pressing Cybersecurity Issues through Collaboration

July 1, 2016
Author(s)
William J. Fisher
The National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) at the National Institute of Standards and Technology addresses businesses’ most pressing cybersecurity problems with practical, standards-based solutions using commercially available technologies

Demystifiying the Internet of Things

June 27, 2016
Author(s)
Jeffrey M. Voas
This short column introduces the need for a foundational science to the Internet of Things (IoT). It introduces the notion of primitives and elements, and their relationship to trustworthiness.

Metamorphic Testing for Cybersecurity

June 27, 2016
Author(s)
Tsong Yueh Chen, Fei-Ching Kuo, Wenjuan Ma, Willy Susilo, Dave Towey, Jeff Voas, Zhi Q. Zhou
Testing is a major approach for the detection of software defects, including security vulnerabilities. This article introduces metamorphic testing (MT), a relatively new testing method, and discusses how the new perspective of MT can help to conduct

Estimating t-way Fault Profile Evolution During Testing

June 10, 2016
Author(s)
Raghu N. Kacker, David R. Kuhn
Empirical studies have shown that most software interaction faults involve one or two variables interacting, with progressively fewer triggered by three or more, and no failure has been reported involving more than six variables interacting. This paper

Derived PIV Application and Data Model Test Guidelines

June 6, 2016
Author(s)
David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Nabil Ghadiali, Jason Mohler, Steven Brady
NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-157 contains technical guidelines for the implementation of standards-based, secure, reliable, interoperable Public Key Infrastructure (PKI)-based identity credentials that are issued for mobile devices by federal

Extending Network Security into Virtualized Infrastructure

June 3, 2016
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-125B, "Secure Virtual Network Configuration for Virtual Machine (VM) Protection." That publication provides an analysis of various virtual network configuration options

Multicast Delayed Authentication For Streaming Synchrophasor Data in the Smart Grid

May 30, 2016
Author(s)
Sergio Camara, Dhananjay Anand, Victoria Yan Pillitteri, Luiz F. Carmo
Multicast authentication of synchrophasor data is challenging due to the design requirements of Smart Grid monitoring systems such as low security overhead, tolerance of lossy networks, time-criticality and high data rates. In this work, we propose inf

Representation of PIV Chain-of-Trust for Import and Export

May 20, 2016
Author(s)
Hildegard Ferraiolo, Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Ketan L. Mehta, Jason Mohler, Stephen Skordinski, Steven Brady
This document provides a common XML-based data representation of a chain-of-trust record to facilitate the exchange of PIV Card enrollment data. The exchanged record is the basis to personalize a PIV Card for a transferred employee and also for service
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