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The Computer Security Division is working with the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) to develop guidance on Computer Security Incident Coordination (CSIC). The goal of CSIC is to help diverse collections of organizations to effectively collaborate in the handling of computer security incidents. Effective collaboration raises numerous issues on how and when to share information between organizations, and in what form information should be shared. Because different organizations may have...
NIST released a new draft of Special Publication (SP) 800-61 Revision 3 in April 2024. The public comment period for Incident Response Recommendations and Considerations for Cybersecurity Risk Management: A CSF 2.0 Community Profile has ended. NIST SP 800-61 Revision 3 seeks to assist organizations with incorporating cybersecurity incident response recommendations and considerations throughout their cybersecurity risk management activities as described by the NIST Cybersecurity Framework...
Mobile Forensics There is a critical need in the law enforcement community to ensure the reliability of mobile forensic tools. The Computer Forensic Tool Testing (CFTT) project at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) establishes methodologies for testing computer forensic software tools by development of general tool specifications, test procedures, test criteria, test sets, and test hardware. The results provide the information necessary for toolmakers to improve tools,...
[Redirect to: https://www.nist.gov/itl/ssd/software-quality-group/national-software-reference-library-nsrl] The National Software Reference Library (NSRL) is designed to collect software from various sources and incorporate file profiles computed from this software into a Reference Data Set (RDS) of information. The RDS can be used by law enforcement, government, and industry organizations to review files on a computer by matching file profiles in the RDS. This will help alleviate much of the...
NIST has defined cloud computing in NIST SP 800-145 document as a model for enabling ubiquitous, convenient, on-demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources (e.g., networks, servers, storage, applications, and services) that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. For more than a decade, cloud computing has offered cost savings both in terms of capital expenses and operational expenses, while leveraging...