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Identifying Windows XP and Server 2003 Common Criteria Certified Requirements for the NIST Special Publication 800-53 Recommended Security Controls for Federal Information Systems
White Papers The NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-53 has special significance in that the security controls contained in the recommended baselines form the basis for those controls that will become mandatory in a Federal Information Processing Standard.
[December 22, 2006, 0:00]
Understanding the New NIST Standards and Guidelines Required by FISMA: How Three Mandated Documents Are Changing the Dynamic of Information Security for the Federal Government
White Papers The Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) of 2002 places significant requirements on federal agencies, including the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), for the protection of information and information systems.
[January 5, 2005, 2:00]
Red Hat spearheads vulnerability initiative
News Open source software vendor Red Hat has announced a new initiative, implemented by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), that enables members of the software industry to officially and publicly comment on vulnerabilities that...
[September 7, 2006, 18:30]
US agencies shun Windows Vista
News The US Department of Transportation (DOT) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) cite fear of compatibility problems as one of the reasons not to allow their tens of thousands of employees to upgrade to Microsoft's latest...
[March 14, 2007, 8:39]
HP loses exec to Linux firm
News Penguin Computing plans to announce on Monday that Pauline Nist, for years a leader of HP's high-end NonStop server group, has become its senior vice-president of product development. Nist led HP's NonStop division, which built very high-end...
[January 16, 2006, 8:50]
The atoms went marching in one by one
News Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) outlined, in a recent issue of Applied Physics Letters, a new way of harnessing neutral atoms in a vacuum chamber by sending them past laser beams tuned to a frequency that...
[May 16, 2003, 9:19]
DVDs marry imperfectly with drives
News The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a division of the US Commerce Department's Technology Administration, said its tests proved DVDs and DVD drives to be compatible only 85 percent of the time.
[December 5, 2003, 13:15]
Scientists 'teleport' atomic particles
News In a paper published in the journal Nature, NIST scientists say they were able to transfer the quantum state, or list of active properties, of one beryllium atom to another. In NIST's teleportation experiment, there is no physical movement.
[June 18, 2004, 12:05]
Risk Management for IT Projects
White Papers There are a variety of standards associated with risk management including PMI's Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK), Australia-New Zealand ANZ- 4360, ISO 31000 Risk Management - Guidelines on Principles and Implementation of Risk...
[May 19, 2009, 1:18]
Mobiles tick to atomic time
News Scientists at the National Institute of Standards and Technology have demonstrated the heart of an atomic clock that's believed to be a hundredth the size of any other atomic clock, NIST said on Monday.
[August 31, 2004, 9:40]
Researchers cut costs of quantum cryptography
News One of the major costs in quantum cryptography is for photon measurement detectors, which can cost between $5,000 (£2,500) and $20,000 (£10,000), according to Nist. In quantum cryptography, polarisation of light can be used to carry encoded...
[June 3, 2008, 15:58]
Flexible memory developed for chips
News The memristor was made by setting titanium oxide, one of the common ingredients of sunscreen and toothpaste, onto flexible transparent polymer sheets, Nist announced on Tuesday. By adding electrical contacts the Nist research team created a...
[June 4, 2009, 17:05]
Start-up gets federal nod for Wi-Fi firewall
News Cranite Systems, a 3-year-old start-up based in San Jose, California, said its WirelessWall Software Suite, a firewall for wireless networks, had earned the Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) 140-2 certification from the National...
[March 26, 2003, 9:01]
Basic transistor flaw could hobble chip design
News However, a team of Nist scientists, who have been exploring nano-scale transistor behaviour, have found that transistor noise does not increase as transistors are scaled down. Campbell credits fellow Nist researcher KP Cheung with first identifying...
[May 28, 2009, 11:34]
Are these wires the future of crypto?
Blog The NIST system shoots out photons at a wavelength compatible with existing fibre-optic telecoms networks. so if you want more details, take a look at the NIST researchers' paper here: http://w3.antd.nist.gov/quin.shtml.
[June 12, 2007, 18:19]
Kingston DataTraveler BlackBox review
Reviews Available in capacities ranging from 2GB (£60) up to 8GB (£140), the DataTraveler BlackBox meets all US federal requirements established by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). Gaining FIPS 140-2 Level 2 certification requires...
[August 26, 2008, 9:35]
Tandem returns to its HP roots
News We're always going through the customer list looking for cross-selling opportunities," Nist said, and now NonStop can take greater advantage of the fact that the systems are often paired with HP's Unix servers.
[June 15, 2002, 7:32]
DieHardTest
Downloads DieHardTest, a Macintosh GUI wrapping the famed NIST Die Hard Randomness Test Suite Select test suite options. Provide a 10-12MB file to test for randomness. Examine and optionally save as a text file the results.
[March 27, 2008, 7:29]
WupTime
Downloads WupTime syncronizes your time with a time server (default is time.nist.gov) so that your time is always right on track!
[March 23, 2005, 6:00]
FISMA: More Than Just POA&M Reporting
White Papers The passage of FISMA has resulted in an extensive set of NIST regulations for IT risk compliance and assurance. Some agencies are taking a very narrow view of FISMA by focusing on its periodic reporting requirements through the completion of basic...
[August 23, 2005, 6:00]
