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On Tuesday, September 10, 2019, NIST’s National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence Supply Chain Assurance project team is having an Industry Day, starting at 8:30am. The purpose of this Industry Day is to identify the issues and challenges of Cyber Supply Chain Risk Management (C-SCRM) in enterprises as input to a potential NCCoE demonstration project. NIST starts the day by presenting its preliminary plans for this project. Then, there will be short presentations from a few stakeholders, sharing their views of the challenges enterprises face when verifying that their purchased computing...
NIST seeks comments on the Preliminary Draft of the "NIST Privacy Framework: A Tool for Improving Privacy through Enterprise Risk Management." The comment period closes October 24, 2019.
Abstract: Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) Publication 201-2, “Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors,” establishes a standard for a PIV system based on secure and reliable forms of identity credentials issued by the federal government to its employees and con...
Abstract: This project explores several scenarios in which information exchanges among commercial- and utility-scale distributed energy resources (DERs) and electric distribution grid operations can be protected from certain cybersecurity compromises. Components of these infrastructures form what is commonly...
Conference: 5th Workshop on Security Information Workers (WSIW 2019) Abstract: The in-progress case study will allow for examination of a security awareness team from several perspectives via a multi-faceted approach involving: 1) interviews of security awareness team members, managers in the team’s chain-of-command, and agency employees who receive the security awareness...
Type: Presentation
NIST has published Cybersecurity Practice Guide Special Publication (SP) 1800-7, "Situational Awareness for Electric Utilities."
Abstract: Through direct dialogue between NCCoE staff and members of the energy sector (composed mainly of electric power companies and those who provide equipment and/or services to them) it became clear that energy companies need to create and maintain a high level of visibility into their operating environ...
Abstract: This document provides Federal agencies with a definition of attribute based access control (ABAC). ABAC is a logical access control methodology where authorization to perform a set of operations is determined by evaluating attributes associated with the subject, object, requested operations, and, i...
Abstract: This document provides instructions and definitions for completing the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) Online Informative References (OLIR) spreadsheet template available for download at https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/informative-references. This document is intended to assist developers of...
NIST has released Draft NISTIR 8259, "Core Cybersecurity Feature Baseline for Securable IoT Devices: A Starting Point for IoT Device Manufacturers," for public comment. The comment period closes on September 30, 2019.
NIST has published Cybersecurity Practice Guide Special Publication (SP) 1800-17, "Multifactor Authentication for E-Commerce: Risk-Based, FIDO Universal Second Factor Implementations for Purchasers"
Abstract: As retailers in the United States have adopted chip-and-signature and chip-and-PIN (personal identification number) point-of-sale (POS) security measures, there have been increases in fraudulent online card-not-present electronic commerce (e-commerce) transactions. The risk of increased fraudulent o...
The NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-21, "Mobile Device Security: Corporate-Owned Personally-Enabled (COPE)," for public comment. The comment period ends September 23, 2019.
The NCCoE has released Draft SP 1800-16, "Securing Web Transactions: Transport Layer Security (TLS) Server Certificate Management," for public comment. The comment period ends September 13, 2019.
A draft NIST Cybersecurity White Paper, "A Taxonomic Approach to Understanding Emerging Blockchain Identity Management Systems," is available for public comment until August 9, 2019.
Abstract: The Smart Grid Profile applies risk management strategies from the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity (Cybersecurity Framework) to the smart grid and will serve as a foundation for refinements to support new grid architectures. The Profile provides cybersecurity risk manag...
Abstract: This publication describes an online glossary of terms used in National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) and Committee on National Security Systems (CNSS) publications. This glossary utilizes a database of terms extracted from NIST Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS), t...
Type: Presentation
NIST has published Special Publication 1800-14, Protecting the Integrity of Internet Routing: Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) Route Origin Validation.
Type: Presentation
NIST has published NIST Interagency/Internal Report 8228, "Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks."
Abstract: The Internet of Things (IoT) is a rapidly evolving and expanding collection of diverse technologies that interact with the physical world. Many organizations are not necessarily aware of the large number of IoT devices they are already using and how IoT devices may affect cybersecurity and privacy r...
The NCCoE at NIST has posted to data confidentiality draft project descriptions for public comment. Comments are due by July 29, 2019.
Conference: 55th ACM Conference on Computers and People Research (SIGMIS-CPR '19) Abstract: Given modern society's dependence on technological infrastructure vulnerable to cyber-attacks, the need to expedite cybersecurity adoption is paramount. Cybersecurity advocates are a subset of security professionals who promote, educate about, and motivate adoption of security best practices and tec...