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ITL Bulletin

NIST Guidance on Application Container Security

Date Published: October 2017

Editor(s)

Ramaswamy Chandramouli (NIST), Murugiah Souppaya (NIST), Karen Scarfone (Scarfone Cybersecurity)

Abstract

Keywords

application container, container, container registry, container security, virtualization
Control Families

Access Control; Configuration Management; System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity

Documentation

Publication:
Download (pdf)

Supplemental Material:
None available

Related NIST Publications:
SP 800-190
IR 8176

Document History:
10/24/17: ITL Bulletin (Final)