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Alexa, Can I Trust You?

September 29, 2017
Author(s)
Judy Chung, Michaela Iorga, Jeff Voas, Sangjin Lee
Security diagnostics expose vulnerabilities and privacy threats that exist in commercial Intelligent Virtual Assistants (IVA)-- diagnostics offer the possibility of securer IVA ecosystems. This paper explores security and privacy concerns with these

Autonomous Relocation of Mobile Base Stations in Emergency Scenarios

September 12, 2017
Author(s)
Kamran Sayrafian, Ladan Rabieekenari, John Baras
Limited access to communication services is one of the challenges that emergency personnel and first responders could face during environmental disasters or other emergencies. Networking infrastructure can breakdown during a catastrophe. At the same time

Cybersecurity Framework Manufacturing Profile

September 8, 2017
Author(s)
Keith A. Stouffer, Timothy A. Zimmerman, CheeYee Tang, Joshua Lubell, Jeffrey A. Cichonski, John McCarthy
[Superseded by NISTIR 8183 (September 2017, Includes updates as of May 20, 2019)]This document provides the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) implementation details developed for the manufacturing environment. The "Manufacturing Profile" of the Cybersecurity

Understanding the Major Update to NIST SP 800-63: Digital Identity Guidelines

August 29, 2017
Author(s)
Michael E. Garcia, Paul A. Grassi, Kristina G. Rigopoulos, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin outlines the updates NIST recently made in its four-volume Special Publication (SP) 800-63, Digital Identity Guidelines, which provide agencies with technical guidelines regarding the digital authentication of users to federal networked

Network Coding in Relay-based Device-to-Device Communications

August 1, 2017
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi
Device-to-Device (D2D) communications has been realized as an effective means to improve network throughput, reduce transmission latency, and extend cellular coverage in 5G systems. Network coding is a well-established technique known for its capability to

Synchrophasor Sensor Networks for Grid Communication and Protection

July 15, 2017
Author(s)
Hamid Gharavi
This paper focuses primarily on leveraging synchronized current/voltage amplitudes and phase angles measurements to foster new categories of applications, such as improving the effectiveness of grid protection and minimizing outage duration for distributed

Digital Identity Guidelines

June 22, 2017
Author(s)
Paul A. Grassi, Michael E. Garcia, James L. Fenton
These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or use of standards outside of this purpose. The guidelines cover identity proofing and

Digital Identity Guidelines: Authentication and Lifecycle Management

June 22, 2017
Author(s)
Paul A. Grassi, Elaine M. Newton, Ray A. Perlner, Andrew R. Regenscheid, William E. Burr, Justin P. Richer, Naomi B. Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene, Mary F. Theofanos
These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or use of standards outside of this purpose. These guidelines focus on the authentication of

Digital Identity Guidelines: Enrollment and Identity Proofing Requirements

June 22, 2017
Author(s)
Paul A. Grassi, James L. Fenton, Naomi B. Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen Greene, Mary F. Theofanos
These guidelines provide technical requirements for federal agencies implementing digital identity services and are not intended to constrain the development or use of standards outside of this purpose. This guideline focuses on the enrollment and

Digital Identity Guidelines: Federation and Assertions

June 22, 2017
Author(s)
Paul A. Grassi, Ellen M. Nadeau, Justin P. Richer, Sarah K. Squire, James L. Fenton, Naomi Lefkovitz, Jamie M. Danker, Yee-Yin Choong, Kristen K. Greene
This document and its companion documents, SP 800-63, SP 800-63A, and SP 800-63B, provide technical and procedural guidelines to agencies for the implementation of federated identity systems and for assertions used by federations. This publication

Guide to Bluetooth Security

May 8, 2017
Author(s)
John Padgette, John Bahr, Mayank Batra, Marcel Holtmann, Rhonda Smithbey, Lidong Chen, Karen Scarfone
Bluetooth wireless technology is an open standard for short-range radio frequency communication used primarily to establish wireless personal area networks (WPANs), and has been integrated into many types of business and consumer devices. This publication

Towards a Foundation for a Collaborative Replicable Smart Cities IoT Architecture

April 26, 2017
Author(s)
Sokwoo Rhee, Cuong Nguyen, Alexander Nelson, Daniel Hoffman, Greg Toth
The pervasive instrumentation of the physical world with sensors and actuators grants an unprecedented level of information granularity that is useful in decision-making processes. As municipalities and the public sector at large begin to leverage the

Report on Lightweight Cryptography

March 28, 2017
Author(s)
Kerry McKay, Lawrence E. Bassham, Meltem Sonmez Turan, Nicky Mouha
NIST-approved cryptographic standards were designed to perform well using general-purpose computers. In recent years, there has been increased deployment of small computing devices that have limited resources with which to implement cryptography. When

Building Caring Healthcare Systems in the Internet of Things

February 22, 2017
Author(s)
Phillip Laplante, Mohamad Kassab, Nancy Laplante, Jeff Voas
The nature of healthcare and the computational and physical technologies and constraints present a number of challenges to systems designers and implementers. In spite of the challenges, there is a significant market for systems and products to support

Rethinking Security through Systems Security Engineering

December 21, 2016
Author(s)
Ronald S. Ross, Larry Feldman, Gregory A. Witte
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST SP 800-160: Systems Security Engineering: Considerations for a Multidisciplinary Approach in the Engineering of Trustworthy Secure Systems. The publication addresses the engineering-driven

The Algebra of Systems and System Interactions with an application to Smart Grid

October 14, 2016
Author(s)
Charif Mahmoudi, Hasnae Bilil, Edward R. Griffor
Systems are integrations of devices or component elements and even other systems. The notion of a system comprehends engineered and biological or mechanical or physical systems. Examples include information and dynamical systems as well as integrations of

Guide to Cyber Threat Information Sharing

October 4, 2016
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 includes indicators of compromise; tactics, techniques, and procedures used by threat actors
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