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2017 NIST/ITL Cybersecurity Program: Annual Report

September 18, 2018
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

IT Asset Management : Financial Services

September 7, 2018
Author(s)
James M. Banoczi
While a physical asset management system can tell you the location of a computer, it cannot answer questions like, “What operating systems are our laptops running?” and “Which devices are vulnerable to the latest threat?” An effective IT asset management

Securing Electronic Health Records on Mobile Devices

July 27, 2018
Author(s)
Gavin W. O'Brien, Nate V. Lesser, Brett Pleasant, Sue Wang, Kangmin Zheng, Colin Bowers, Kyle Kamke
Health care providers increasingly use mobile devices to receive, store, process, and transmit patient clinical information. According to our own risk analysis, discussed here, and in the experience of many health care providers, mobile devices can present

Identity and Access Management for Electric Utilities

July 13, 2018
Author(s)
James J. McCarthy
To protect power generation, transmission, and distribution, energy companies need to control physical and logical access to their resources, including buildings, equipment, information technology (IT), and operational technology (OT). They must

Assessing Security Requirements for Controlled Unclassified Information

June 13, 2018
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Kelley L. Dempsey, Victoria Y. Pillitteri
The protection of Controlled Unclassified Information (CUI) resident in nonfederal systems and organizations is of paramount importance to federal agencies and can directly impact the ability of the federal government to successfully conduct its assigned

Security Recommendations for Server-based Hypervisor Platforms

June 7, 2018
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The Hypervisor platform is a collection of software modules that provides virtualization of hardware resources (such as CPU, Memory, Network and Storage) and thus enables multiple computing stacks (made of an operating system (OS) and application programs)

Platform Firmware Resiliency Guidelines

May 4, 2018
Author(s)
Andrew R. Regenscheid
This document provides technical guidelines and recommendations supporting resiliency of platform firmware and data against potentially destructive attacks. The platform is a collection of fundamental hardware and firmware components needed to boot and

Protecting Controlled Unclassified Information in Nonfederal Information Systems and Organizations [including updates as of 02-20-2018]

February 20, 2018
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Patrick Viscuso, Gary Guissanie, Kelley L. Dempsey, Mark Riddle
[Superseded by SP 800-171 Rev. 1 (December 2016, updated 06/07/2018): 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

The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) Version 1.3

February 14, 2018
Author(s)
David A. Waltermire, Stephen D. Quinn, Harold Booth, Karen Scarfone, Dragos Prisaca
The Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) is a suite of specifications that standardize the format and nomenclature by which software flaw and security configuration information is communicated, both to machines and humans. This publication, along

Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers

January 23, 2018
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
The Hypervisor is a collection of software modules that provides virtualization of hardware resources (such as CPU/GPU, Memory, Network and Storage) and thus enables multiple computing stacks (basically made of an OS and Application programs) called
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