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Software Performance Project

The mission of the Software Performance project is to strengthen the scientific foundations of software performance measurement ("metrology for IT").
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Cybersecurity for Smart Grid Systems

Smart grid cybersecurity must address both inadvertent compromises of the electric infrastructure, due to user errors, equipment failures, and natural disasters

National Checklist Program

NIST maintains the National Checklist Repository, which is a publicly available resource that contains information on a variety of security configuration

Publications

Guidance for Evaluating Contactless Fingerprint Acquisition Devices

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

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, which