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NIST Cybersecurity Framework Addresses Risks to Critical Infrastructure

June 2, 2014
Author(s)
Victoria Y. Pillitteri
On February 12, 2014 President Obama issued a statement that, "[c]yber threats pose one the gravest national security dangers that the United States faces. To better defend our nation against this systemic challenge, one year ago I signed an Executive

Small and Medium-size Business Information Security Outreach Program

May 13, 2014
Author(s)
Richard L. Kissel, Kim Quill, Chris Johnson
Small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) represent 99.7 percent of all U.S. employers and are an important segment of the U.S. economy. These organizations, totaling more than 28.2 million, create over 60 percent of all new U.S. private-sector jobs and

CVSS Implementation Guidance

April 28, 2014
Author(s)
Joshua M. Franklin, Charles W. Wergin, Harold Booth
This Interagency Report provides guidance to individuals scoring vulnerabilities using the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) Version 2.0 scoring metrics. CVSS defines a vulnerability as a bug, flaw, weakness, or exposure of an application, system

A Model Towards Using Evidence from Security Events for Network Attack Analysis

April 27, 2014
Author(s)
Changwei Liu, Anoop Singhal, Duminda Wijesekera
Constructing an efficient and accurate model from security events to determine an attack scenario for an enterprise network is challenging. In this paper, we discuss how to use evidence obtained from security events to construct an attack scenario and

NIST and Computer Security

April 4, 2014
Author(s)
William E. Burr, Hildegard Ferraiolo, David A. Waltermire
The US National Institute of Standards and Technology's highly visible work in four key areas--cryptographic standards, role-based access control, identification card standards, and security automation--has and continues to shape computer and information
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