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Special Publication (NIST SP)

Timing Challenges in the Smart Grid

Author(s)
YaShian Li-Baboud, Cuong T. Nguyen, Marc A. Weiss, Dhananjay Anand, Allen R. Goldstein, Jason Allnutt, Bob Noseworthy, Ravi Subramaniam
Correct time and timing is one of the foundational elements in enabling the communication and orchestration of technologies for accurate and optimal wide area

Guide for Cybersecurity Event Recovery

Author(s)
Michael Bartock, Jeffrey Cichonski, Murugiah Souppaya, Matthew C. Smith, Gregory Witte, Karen Scarfone
In light of an increasing number of cybersecurity events, organizations can improve resilience by ensuring that their risk management processes include

Guide Brief 5: Assessing Energy System Dependencies

Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
A major aspect of characterizing the built environment is identifying key infrastructure dependencies that may exist. Some of these dependencies are obvious

Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing

Author(s)
Christopher S. Johnson, Mark L. Badger, David A. Waltermire, Julie Snyder, Clem Skorupka
Cyber threat information is any information that can help an organization identify, assess, monitor, and respond to cyber threats. Cyber threat information

Guide Brief 4 - Determining Anticipated Performance

Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides guidance for determining the anticipated performance of building clusters and infrastructure systems when subjected to hazard events

Guide Brief 2 - Identify Social Institutions

Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding Step 2 in the Guide—“Understand the Situation” —for how to “Identify Social Institutions”

Guide Brief 1 - Characterize the Population

Author(s)
Community Resilience Program NIST
This Guide Brief provides additional rationale and guidance regarding the first part of Step 2 in the Guide, “Characterize social functions and dependencies”

Trustworthy Email

Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Simson L. Garfinkel, J. S. Nightingale, Scott W. Rose
This document gives recommendations and guidelines for enhancing trust in email. The primary audience includes enterprise email administrators, information