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Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers

October 9, 2007
Author(s)
Miles C. Tracy, Wayne Jansen, Karen A. Scarfone, Theodore Winograd
Web servers are often the most targeted and attacked hosts on organizations' networks. As a result, it is essential to secure Web servers and the network infrastructure that supports them. This document is intended to assist organizations in installing

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop "Applications-Driven PKI" Proceedings

September 13, 2007
Author(s)
William T. Polk, Kent Seamons
NIST hosted the sixth Annual Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Research Workshop on April 17-19, 2007. The two and a half day event brought together PKI experts from academia, industry, and government had a particular interest in novel approaches to

A New Taxonomy for Analyzing Smart Card-based Authentication Processes

September 7, 2007
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
As part of E-Government and security initiatives, smart cards are now being increasingly deployed as authentication tokens. The existing classification of authentication factors into What you Know, What You Have and What You Are- does not provide a good

Infrastructure Standards for Smart ID-Cards Deployment

September 7, 2007
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Philip Lee
Smart cards are being increasingly deployed for many applications. Typical applications are Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards (in Telecommunication), Micropayment (in Financial Transactions), Commuter Cards (in Urban Transportation Systems) and

Guide to Secure Web Services

August 29, 2007
Author(s)
Anoop Singhal, Theodore Winograd, Karen A. Scarfone
The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), SOAP, and related open standards, and deployed in Service Oriented

Secure Web Services

August 23, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin provides information on current and emerging standards that have been developed for Web services, and provides background information on the most common security threats to service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The bulletin discusses Web

Where EAP Security Claims Fail

August 14, 2007
Author(s)
Katrin Hoeper, Lei Chen
The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is widely used as an authentication framework to control the access to wireless networks, e.g. in IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 networks. In this paper, we discuss limitations of EAP security and demonstrate how

A Complete Guide to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2.0

July 30, 2007
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Karen A. Scarfone, Sasha Romanosky
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. CVSS consists of three groups: Base, Temporal and Environmental. Each group produces a numeric score ranging

CVSS-SIG Version 2 History

July 30, 2007
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Karen A. Scarfone, Gavin Reid
This document attempts to interpret the history and rationale behind changes made in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) from version 1 to version 2 (referred to as CVSS v1 and v2 in this document.) This document contains multiple appendices

Border Gateway Protocol Security

July 26, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a critical role in the effective operation of the Internet. BGP is used to update routing information between major systems, which makes it possible for systems connected to the Internet to receive and transmit

Conformance Checking of Access Control Policies Specified in XACML

July 24, 2007
Author(s)
Vincent C. Hu, Evan Martin, Tao Xie
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used security mechanisms. Access control mechanisms control which principals such as users or processes have access to which resources in a system. To facilitate managing and maintaining access

Border Gateway Protocol Security

July 17, 2007
Author(s)
D. Richard Kuhn, Kotikalapudi Sriram, Douglas Montgomery
This document introduces the Border Gateway Protocol (BGP), explains its importance to the internet, and provides a set of best practices that can help in protecting BGP. Best practices described here are intended to be implementable on nearly all

Forensic Techniques for Cell Phones

June 27, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
The data that is captured on mobile phones can be a source of valuable information to organizations that are investigating crimes, policy violations and other security incidents. The science of recovering digital evidence from mobile phones, using

Securing Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) Systems

May 17, 2007
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone
Radio frequency identification (RFID) is a form of automatic identification and data capture technology that uses electric or magnetic fields at radio frequencies to transmit information. An RFID system can be used to identify many types of objects, such

Access Control Policy Combinations for the Grid Using the Policy Machine

May 14, 2007
Author(s)
Vincent C. Hu, David F. Ferraiolo, Karen A. Scarfone
Many researchers have tackled the architecture and requirements aspects of grid security, concentrating on the authentication or authorization mediation instead of authorization techniques, especially the topic of policy combination. Policy combination is

Specification-Driven Testing of Smart Card Interface Using a Formal Model

April 30, 2007
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Mark Blackburn
Model-Driven Engineering (MDE) is emerging as a promising approach that uses models to support various phases of system development lifecycle such as Code Generation and Verification/Validation (V &V). In this paper, we describe the application of a model

Securing Wireless Networks

April 26, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the recommendations developed by NIST to assist organizations in establishing and maintaining robust security for wireless local area networks (WLAN) using the new security features that were developed for IEEE 802.11i. Topics
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