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Securing External Computers and Other Devices Used by Teleworkers

December 19, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the recommendations developed by NIST to help workers secure their external devices that they need for teleworking. The bulletin covers background information on telework technologies and the security issues related to the use of

Secure Biometric Match-on-Card Feasibility Report

November 30, 2007
Author(s)
David A. Cooper, Trung-Hung Dang, Philip Lee, William I. MacGregor, Ketan Mehta
FIPS 201, "Personal Identity Verification (PIV) of Federal Employees and Contractors," and its associated special publications define a method to perform biometric match-off-card authentication of a PIV cardholder when the PIV card is inserted into a

Using Storage Encryption Technologies to Protect End User Devices

November 26, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the guidance developed by NIST and published in SP 800-111 to help organizations secure their end user devices, and deter unauthorized parties from accessing the stored information. The bulletin explains three classes of storage

Guide to Storage Encryption Technologies for End User Devices

November 15, 2007
Author(s)
Karen A. Scarfone, Murugiah P. Souppaya, Matt Sexton
Many threats against end user devices, such as desktop and laptop computers, smart phones, personal digital assistants, and removable media, could cause information stored on the devices to be accessed by unauthorized parties. To prevent such disclosures

The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS)

October 25, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin summarizes the guidance developed by NIST and published in NISTIR 7435 to help IT managers to make sense of data about the vulnerabilities of their information systems and to take appropriate actions that will protect their systems and

Guidelines on Securing Public Web Servers

October 9, 2007
Author(s)
Miles C. Tracy, Wayne Jansen, Karen A. Scarfone, Theodore Winograd
Web servers are often the most targeted and attacked hosts on organizations' networks. As a result, it is essential to secure Web servers and the network infrastructure that supports them. This document is intended to assist organizations in installing

6th Annual PKI R&D Workshop "Applications-Driven PKI" Proceedings

September 13, 2007
Author(s)
William T. Polk, Kent Seamons
NIST hosted the sixth Annual Public Key Infrastructure (PKI) Research Workshop on April 17-19, 2007. The two and a half day event brought together PKI experts from academia, industry, and government had a particular interest in novel approaches to

A New Taxonomy for Analyzing Smart Card-based Authentication Processes

September 7, 2007
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli
As part of E-Government and security initiatives, smart cards are now being increasingly deployed as authentication tokens. The existing classification of authentication factors into What you Know, What You Have and What You Are- does not provide a good

Infrastructure Standards for Smart ID-Cards Deployment

September 7, 2007
Author(s)
Ramaswamy Chandramouli, Philip Lee
Smart cards are being increasingly deployed for many applications. Typical applications are Subscriber Identification Module (SIM) cards (in Telecommunication), Micropayment (in Financial Transactions), Commuter Cards (in Urban Transportation Systems) and

Guide to Secure Web Services

August 29, 2007
Author(s)
Anoop Singhal, Theodore Winograd, Karen A. Scarfone
The advance of Web services technologies promises to have far-reaching effects on the Internet and enterprise networks. Web services based on the eXtensible Markup Language (XML), SOAP, and related open standards, and deployed in Service Oriented

Secure Web Services

August 23, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
This bulletin provides information on current and emerging standards that have been developed for Web services, and provides background information on the most common security threats to service-oriented architectures (SOAs). The bulletin discusses Web

Where EAP Security Claims Fail

August 14, 2007
Author(s)
Katrin Hoeper, Lei Chen
The Extensible Authentication Protocol (EAP) is widely used as an authentication framework to control the access to wireless networks, e.g. in IEEE 802.11 and IEEE 802.16 networks. In this paper, we discuss limitations of EAP security and demonstrate how

A Complete Guide to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2.0

July 30, 2007
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Karen A. Scarfone, Sasha Romanosky
The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) provides an open framework for communicating the characteristics and impacts of IT vulnerabilities. CVSS consists of three groups: Base, Temporal and Environmental. Each group produces a numeric score ranging

CVSS-SIG Version 2 History

July 30, 2007
Author(s)
Peter M. Mell, Karen A. Scarfone, Gavin Reid
This document attempts to interpret the history and rationale behind changes made in the Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) from version 1 to version 2 (referred to as CVSS v1 and v2 in this document.) This document contains multiple appendices

Border Gateway Protocol Security

July 26, 2007
Author(s)
Shirley M. Radack
The Border Gateway Protocol (BGP) plays a critical role in the effective operation of the Internet. BGP is used to update routing information between major systems, which makes it possible for systems connected to the Internet to receive and transmit

Conformance Checking of Access Control Policies Specified in XACML

July 24, 2007
Author(s)
Vincent C. Hu, Evan Martin, Tao Xie
Access control is one of the most fundamental and widely used security mechanisms. Access control mechanisms control which principals such as users or processes have access to which resources in a system. To facilitate managing and maintaining access
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