Software Quality Group

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New NIST Forensic Tests Help Ensure High-Quality Copies of Digital Evidence

News and Updates

Boxes of old software stand on a shelf, inlcuding a flight simulator, Dark Souls II and a Kaspersky anti-virus product.

Step Inside the National Software Reference Library

October 18, 2022

More than one billion pieces of software rest in a closely monitored storage facility on the NIST campus in Gaithersburg, Maryland.

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Spotlight: An Honor From Abroad for the National Software Reference Library

October 18, 2022

Far from home, an official ceremonial constable’s helmet from the United Kingdom rests comfortably in an office at NIST. But why?

NIST Update to Software Reference Library Will Aid in Criminal Investigations

June 27, 2022

Expanded, more searchable database will help law enforcement find incriminating images in electronic media.

NIST Publishes Review of Digital Forensic Methods

May 10, 2022

Report documents the scientific foundations of digital evidence examination and recommends ways to advance the field.

Publications

Software Metrics: Impossible, but Doable

January 22, 2025

Author(s)

Paul Black

Software metrics are theoretically impossible. However, there is tremendous benefit if we can assess properties of computerized systems. We review the elements

Reliability in Building Blocks for Secure Software

December 5, 2024

Author(s)

Paul Black

In February 2024 the U.S. White House Office of the National Cyber Director (ONCD) released "Back to the Building Blocks: A Path Toward Secure and Measurable

Measuring social consensus

November 18, 2024

Author(s)

David W. Flater

Many organizations describe their processes as consensus-driven, but there is no consensus on the definition of consensus. Qualitative definitions of consensus

Report on Secure Hardware Assurance Reference Dataset (SHARD) Program

October 1, 2024

Author(s)

Paul E. Black, Vadim Okun

Significant vulnerabilities have been found in chips. Computer programs and methods have been developed to prevent, find, and mitigate them. We proposed Secure

Software

UNRAVEL

Computer Aided Software Engineering (CASE) tool, unravel. This tool can assist evaluation of high integrity software by using program slices to extract

Awards

Barbara Guttman Wins Leadership in Forensic Science Award

This award was presented to Barbara Guttman for Leadership in Forensic Science. Ms. Guttman is the leader of the Software Quality Group in

Irena Bojanova was Selected as Recipient of the 2020 IEEE TCCLD Outstanding Service Award

For founding the IEEE Technical Committee on Cloud Computing (TCCLD) and for overall leadership service to IEEE and the world.

2020 - Judson C. French Award---Douglas White, Megan Ogata, Austin Snelick, Alexander Nelson, Eric Trapnell, Michael Ogata, Robert Byers, Gurmindersingh (Gini) J. Khalsa, Craig Russell, Mary Laamanen

For dramatic enhancements to law enforcement’s ability to identify child exploitation imagery through NIST’s National Software Reference Library.

Guttman, Badger, Chichonski, Bartok, Black, Ferraiolo, Cooper

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Mark Badger, Michael Bartock, Paul E. Black, Jeffrey Cichonski, David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Barbara Guttman, Murugiah Souppaya

For developing a series of outstanding technical guidelines addressing critical cybersecurity needs prioritized by the White House.

Press Coverage

Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data

November 16, 2018

NIST technicians are partnering with a Colorado-based tech firm, VTO Labs, a digital security consulting firm. The NIST archive is a digital training ground for

NIST: Michael Ogata outlines methods, challenges for vetting security of mobile applications

Urgent Communications

June 21, 2018

Michael Ogata, a computer scientist for the National Institute for Standards and Technology, explains how the methodology used in his Mobile Application

Forensic Images Help Law Enforcement Catch Drone Criminals

Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) Magazine

June 19, 2018

As law enforcement agencies learn how to gather evidence from drones used to commit crimes, they’re finding that extracting useful forensic evidence is a

NIST Drafts Guide, Seeks Comments on Setting up Mobile Test Devices for Digital Forensics

Forensic Magazine

March 30, 2018

Digital forensics investigators use a variety of tools for recovering and extracting data from mobile devices, such as phones, tablets and wearables. To help

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Spotlight on Commerce

Projects/Programs

News and Updates

Step Inside the National Software Reference Library

Spotlight: An Honor From Abroad for the National Software Reference Library

NIST Update to Software Reference Library Will Aid in Criminal Investigations

NIST Publishes Review of Digital Forensic Methods

Publications

Software Metrics: Impossible, but Doable

Reliability in Building Blocks for Secure Software

Measuring social consensus

Report on Secure Hardware Assurance Reference Dataset (SHARD) Program

Software

UNRAVEL

Awards

Barbara Guttman Wins Leadership in Forensic Science Award

Irena Bojanova was Selected as Recipient of the 2020 IEEE TCCLD Outstanding Service Award

2020 - Judson C. French Award---Douglas White, Megan Ogata, Austin Snelick, Alexander Nelson, Eric Trapnell, Michael Ogata, Robert Byers, Gurmindersingh (Gini) J. Khalsa, Craig Russell, Mary Laamanen

2017 - Bronze Medal Award---Mark Badger, Michael Bartock, Paul E. Black, Jeffrey Cichonski, David Cooper, Hildegard Ferraiolo, Barbara Guttman, Murugiah Souppaya

Press Coverage

Your Drone Can Give Cops a Surprising Amount of Your Data

NIST: Michael Ogata outlines methods, challenges for vetting security of mobile applications

Forensic Images Help Law Enforcement Catch Drone Criminals

NIST Drafts Guide, Seeks Comments on Setting up Mobile Test Devices for Digital Forensics

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