News & Updates

The NCCoE seeks comments on Volume B ("Approach, Architecture, and Security Characteristics") of Draft SP 1800-19, Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMWare Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments. Comments are due by January 11, 2019.

NIST has released Draft NIST Internal Report (NISTIR) 8221, which analyzes recent vulnerabilities associated with two open-source hypervisors--Xen and KVM--as reported by the NIST National Vulnerability Database. The public comment period closes Friday, October 12, 2018.

NIST has released a preliminary draft of NIST Special Publication 1800-19A, Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMWare Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments (Executive Summary).

Ensuring the Security of Virtualized Server Platforms Against Potential Threats: NIST Releases Draft Special Publication 800-125A Revision 1, Security Recommendations for Server-based Hypervisor Platforms

An increasing number of people and organizations are using smart, interconnected devices, which form....

NIST has published SP 800-125A, Security Recommendations for Hypervisor Deployment on Servers.

NIST announces the release of NIST Interagency Report (NISTIR) 8176, Security Assurance Requirements for Linux Application Container Deployments

NIST Announces the Final Release of Special Publication (SP) 800-190, Application Container Security Guide

Application Containers are slowly finding adoption in enterprise IT infrastructures. To address security concerns associated with deployment of application container platforms, NIST Special Publication 800-190 (2nd Draft), Application Container Security Guide, identified security threats

NIST requests public comments on DRAFT SP 800-180, NIST Definition of Microservices, Application Containers and System Virtual Machines. This document serves to provide a NIST-standard definition to application containers, microservices ...

NIST announces the second public comment release of Interagency Report (IR) 7904, Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation. This report describes a proof of concept implementation that was designed by NIST...

NIST announces the public comment release of Draft Interagency Report (IR) 7904, Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud: Proof of Concept Implementation. This publication explains selected security challenges involving Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) ...