Cloud Service Feature Driven Security Policies for Virtualized Infrastructures
With the increasing maturity of various cloud service delivery models (Software as a Service (SaaS), Platform as a Service (PaaS), Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS)) and deployment models (Private, Community, Public, Hybrid), the security risk profile of
Predicting Macroscopic Dynamics in Large Distributed Systems
In this paper, we outline an approach that can be used to predict macroscopic dynamics when new components are deployed in a large distributed system. Our approach combines two main methods: scale reduction and multidimensional data analysis techniques
On the Security of Hash Functions Employing Blockcipher Postprocessing
Analyzing desired generic properties of hash functions is an important current area in cryptography. For example, in Eurocrypt 2009, Dodis, Ristenpart and Shrimpton introduced the elegant notion of "Preimage Awareness" (PrA) of a hash function H^P , and
In Situ Gas Phase Measurements During Metal Alkylamide Atomic Layer Deposition
Metal alkylamide compounds, such as tetrakis(ethylmethylamido) hafnium (TEMAH), represent a technologically important class of metalorganic precursors for the deposition of metal oxides and metal nitrides via atomic layer deposition (ALD) or chemical vapor
USABILITY STANDARDS ACROSS THE DEVELOPMENT LIFECYCLE
In 2005 the International Standards Organization published ISO/IEC 25062 Common Industry Format (CIF) for Usability Test Reports. This standard focused on documenting the results of usability testing in a consistent format in terms of user effectiveness
Conservation Law Based Cross-Layer Optimization of a Wireless Network for Diverse Rate/Delay Requirements
Conventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion prices. This assumption leads to the Network Utility Maximization (NUM) framework. However, often
Robust Cross-Layer Network Optimization for Diverse QoS Requirements: Work in Progress
AbstractConventional approach to cross-layer network optimization assumes elastic users adjusting their bandwidth requirements in response to the resource congestion prices. This assumption leads to Network Utility Maximization (NUM) framework with
An Efficient Sensitivity Analysis Method for Large Cloud Simulations
We describe Koala, an infrastructure Cloud simulator inspired by the Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2). We conduct a sensitivity analysis of Koala, revealing eight behavioral dimensions, which are influenced significantly by six parameters. Our findings
Stable isotope-labeling of DNA repair proteins, and their purification and characterization
Reduced DNA repair capacity is associated with increased risk for a variety of disease processes including carcinogenesis. Thus, DNA repair proteins have the potential to be used as important predictive, prognostic and therapeutic biomarkers in cancer and
Documentation on using the Messaging Workbench (MWB) tool to edit the profile created for the NCPDP SCRIPT Implementation Guide: Version 10.6 NEWRX New Prescription and RXHRES Prescription History Response message structures.
The Access Control for SAR Systems (ACSS) project focused on developing a prototype privilege management system used to express and enforce policies for controlling access to Suspicious Activity Report (SAR) data within the law enforcement domain. This
Guidelines for Protecting Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) Firmware
This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-147, BIOS Protection Guidelines: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology. The publication was written by David Cooper, William Polk
Who wrote What Where: Analyzing the content of human and automatic summaries
Abstractive summarization has been a long-standing and long-term goal in automatic summarization, because systems that can generate abstracts demonstrate a deeper understanding of language and the meaning of documents than systems that merely extract
Conformance Test Architecture and Test Suite for ANSI/NIST-ITL 1-2007
The Computer Security Division of NIST/ITL supports the development of biometric conformance testing methodology standards and other conformity assessment efforts through active technical participation in the development of these standards and the
This specification describes the Asset Reporting Format (ARF), a data model for expressing the transport format of information about assets and the relationships between assets and reports. The standardized data model facilitates the reporting, correlating
Asset identification plays an important role in an organization‟s ability to quickly correlate different sets of information about assets. This specification provides the necessary constructs to uniquely identify assets based on known identifiers and/or
New techniques for reducing the depth of circuits for cryptographic applications are described and applied to the AES S-box. These techniques also keep the number of gates quite small. The result, when applied to the AES S-box, is a circuit with depth 16
We describe a high sensitivity and high spectral resolution laser absorption spectrometer based upon the frequency-stabilized cavity ring-down spectroscopy (FS-CRDS) technique. We used the Pound-Drever-Hall (PDH) method to lock the probe laser to the high
A Combinatorial Approach to Detecting Buffer Overflow Vulnerabilities
Buffer overflow vulnerabilities are program defects that can cause a buffer overflow to occur at runtime. Many security attacks exploit buffer overflow vulnerabilities to compromise critical data structures. In this paper, we present a black-box testing
Successful Design of Biometric Tests in a Constrained Environment
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), with participation of the biometrics community, conducts evaluations of biometrics-based verification and identification systems. Among the more challenging is testing of automated latent