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News and Updates

Tan and red aircraft carrier in grey colored segment of ocean off Cape Cod, MA, represents ship at sea while red and blue balloons along the coast indicate wireless users.

NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

March 22, 2018

For the past three years, an important broker has had its eyes on a prime piece of property that it wants to allocate...

Updated NIST Software Uses Combination Testing to Catch Bugs Fast and Easy

November 09, 2010

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released an updated version of a computer...

NIST Publishes Approved Testing Procedures for Electronic Health Records

August 17, 2010

In efforts to help the nation's health care industry make the transition to the digital age in an effective and...

NIST, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure for Health IT Systems

March 16, 2010

Fully incorporating modern information technology into the healthcare system promises many benefits, including better...

Publications

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

July 27, 2018

Author(s):

John M. Libert, John D. Grantham, Bruce Bandini, Stephen S. Wood, Michael D. Garris, Kenneth Ko, Frederick R. Byers, Craig I. Watson

This document details efforts undertaken by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to develop measurements and a protocol for the evaluation...

Improving Software Assurance through Static Analysis Tool Expositions

October 31, 2017

Author(s):

Terry S. Cohen, Damien J. Cupif, Aurelien M. Delaitre, Charles Daniel De Oliveira, Elizabeth N. Fong, Vadim Okun

Multiple techniques and tools prove effective for software assurance. One technique that has grown in acceptance since the early 2000s is static analysis,...

What Happened to Software Metrics?

May 25, 2017

Author(s):

Jeffrey M. Voas, David R. Kuhn

In the 1980's, the software quality community was all 'a buzz' with seemingly endless 'potential' approaches for producing higher quality software. At the...

General Methods for Access Control Policy Verification

December 19, 2016

Author(s):

Chung Tong Hu, David R. Kuhn

Access control systems are among the most critical of computer security components. Faulty policies, misconfigurations, or flaws in software implementations...

Conformance testing

News and Updates

NIST Helps Facilitate First-Ever Spectrum Sharing Between Military and Commercial Wireless Users

Updated NIST Software Uses Combination Testing to Catch Bugs Fast and Easy

NIST Publishes Approved Testing Procedures for Electronic Health Records

NIST, Partners Develop Testing Infrastructure for Health IT Systems

Publications

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

Improving Software Assurance through Static Analysis Tool Expositions

What Happened to Software Metrics?

General Methods for Access Control Policy Verification

Projects & Programs

Cyber-Physical Systems for Global Cities

Cyber-Physical Systems Testbed Design Concepts

Reference Architecture for Cyber-Physical Systems

Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems