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NIST Pubs

Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMware Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments

Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Donna Dodson, Daniel Carroll, Gina Scinta, Hemma Prafullchandra, Harmeet Singh, Raghuram Yeluri, Tim Shea, Carlos Phoenix, Robert Masten, Paul Massis, Jason Malnar, Michael Dalton, Anthony Dukes, Brenda Swarts, Rajeev Ghandi, Laura Storey, Rocky Weber, Jeff Haskins
A cloud workload is an abstraction of the actual instance of a functional application that is virtualized or containerized to include compute, storage, and

Hardware-Enabled Security: Policy-Based Governance in Trusted Container Platforms

Author(s)
Michael Bartock, Murugiah Souppaya, Haidong Xia, Raghu Yeluri, Uttam Shetty, Brandon Lum, Mariusz Sabath, Harmeet Singh, Alaa Youssef, Gosia Steinder, Yu Cao, Jayashree Ramanathan
In today's cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have significantly increased, cyber attacks are industrialized, and most security control

A Roadmap for LIMS at NIST Material Measurement Laboratory

Author(s)
Gretchen Greene, Jared Ragland, Zachary Trautt, June W. Lau, Raymond Plante, Joshua Taillon, Adam Abel Creuziger, Chandler A. Becker, Joe Bennett, Niksa Blonder, Lisa Borsuk, Carelyn E. Campbell, Adam Friss, Lucas Hale, Michael Halter, Robert Hanisch, Gary R. Hardin, Lyle E. Levine, Samantha Maragh, Sierra Miller, Chris Muzny, Marcus William Newrock, John Perkins, Anne L. Plant, Bruce D. Ravel, David J. Ross, John Henry J. Scott, Christopher Szakal, Alessandro Tona, Peter Vallone
Instrumentation generates data faster and in higher quantity than ever before, and interlaboratory research is in historic demand domestically and

Gauging Difficulty of Image Segmentation

Author(s)
Marek Franaszek
Image segmentation is the first step in a complex process of object recognition. This report presents a method to gauge the difficulty of segmentation by

Indoor Carbon Dioxide Metric Analysis Tool

Author(s)
Andrew K. Persily, Brian Polidoro
Indoor carbon dioxide (CO2) concentrations have been used for decades to evaluate indoor air quality (IAQ) and ventilation, and more recently in discussions of

Disinfection of Respirators with Ultraviolet Radiation

Author(s)
Dianne L. Poster, Matthew Hardwick, C Cameron Miller, Michael A. Riley, W. W. Shanaka I. Rodrigo, Andras E. Vladar, John D. Wright, Christopher D. Zangmeister, Clarence Zarobila, Jeremy Starkweather, John Wynne, Jason Yilzarde
Data for interpreting virus inactivation on N95 face filtering respirators (FFRs) by ultraviolet (UV) radiation are important in developing UV strategies for

NIST Time and Frequency Bulletin

Author(s)
Kelsey Rodriguez
The Time and Frequency Bulletin provides information on performance of time scales and a variety of broadcasts (and related information) to users of the NIST