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SP 800-82

Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security

Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy

Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy

The Department of Commerce's Internet Policy Task Force Green Paper on Cybersecurity, Innovation and the Internet Economy recommends consideration of a new framework for addressing internet security issues for companies outside the orbit of critical

Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other control system configurations such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security - Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other control system configurations such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-82, Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security, provides guidance on how to secure Industrial Control Systems (ICS), including Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems

Throughput and Delay Analysis of Half-Duplex IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks

Throughput and Delay Analysis of Half-Duplex IEEE 802.11 Mesh Networks

Emerging technologies for mesh networks can provide users with last-mile service to an access point by forwarding data through wireless relays instead of through expensive wireline infrastructure. While an extensive amount of literature on mesh networks

Ant-Colony Based Near-ML Block Decoder in Asynchronous Cooperative MIMO Systems Using a Linear Dispersion Structure

Ant-Colony Based Near-ML Block Decoder in Asynchronous Cooperative MIMO Systems Using a Linear Dispersion Structure

The linear dispersion structure is employed to accommodate the dynamic topology of cooperative networks, as well as to achieve higher throughput than conventional space-time codes based on orthogonal designs. Asynchronous Cooperative Liner Dispersion Codes

Performance Assessments of Two-Way, Free-Form, Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems for Tactical Use

Performance Assessments of Two-Way, Free-Form, Speech-to-Speech Translation Systems for Tactical Use

A critical challenge for military personnel when operating in foreign countries is effective communication with the local population. To address this issue, the Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) created the Spoken Language Communication and

Self-Deployment Algorithms for Field Coverage in a Network of Nonidentical Mobile Sensors

Self-Deployment Algorithms for Field Coverage in a Network of Nonidentical Mobile Sensors

In this paper, efficient deployment algorithms are proposed for a mobile sensor network to improve coverage. The proposed algorithms calculate the position of the sensors iteratively based on the existing coverage holes in the target field. The

Selective Pixel Interpolation for Spatial Error Concealment

Selective Pixel Interpolation for Spatial Error Concealment

This paper proposes an effective algorithm for spatial error concealment with accurate edge detection and partitioning interpolation. Firstly, a new method is used for detecting possible edge pixels and their matching pixels around the lost block. Then

Scanning the Issue Smart Grid: The Electric Energy System of the Future

Scanning the Issue Smart Grid: The Electric Energy System of the Future

This is an editorial article for a special issue on smart grid. The main objective is to report on some, if not all, of smart grid future technical challenges. While acknowledging its limited coverage, this issue offers a wide range of interesting

Pixel Interlacing Based Video Transmission for Low-complexity Intra-frame Error Concealment

Pixel Interlacing Based Video Transmission for Low-complexity Intra-frame Error Concealment

When multi-path fading and interference frequently disrupts a mobile radio communication system, it can seriously undermine its reliability for transmission of compressed video signals. In this paper, we present a pixel interlacing based video transmission

Multigate Communication Network For Smart Grid

Multigate Communication Network For Smart Grid

It is envisioned that one of the most important issues in Smart Grid will be to design a network architecture that is capable of providing secure and reliable two-way communication from meters to other Smart Grid domains. While networking technologies and

Linear Dispersion Codes for Asynchronous Cooperative MIMO Systems

Linear Dispersion Codes for Asynchronous Cooperative MIMO Systems

In this treatise, we propose a novel family of Asynchronous Cooperative Linear Dispersion Codes (ACLDCs), which is capable of maintaining full diversity in cooperative scenarios even at the presence of asynchronous reception. The linear dispersion

Identity Management and Privacy: A Rare Opportunity To Get It Right

Identity Management and Privacy: A Rare Opportunity To Get It Right

Since 1976, when Whitfield Diffie and Martin Helleman, first surmised the possibilities for the potential uses for digital signatures in an IEEE publication, there has been ongoing discussion of building an online identity management structure. As use of

Templated CDA:Key Concept for Interoperability

Templated CDA:Key Concept for Interoperability

This document supplements information about "templated CDA" in the context of the Healthcare Information Technology (HIT) Standards Analysis Project carried out by Lantana Consulting Group for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST).

Healthcare Information Technology Standards: General Suitability Analysis

Healthcare Information Technology Standards: General Suitability Analysis

The methodology described in this document was produced and developed by Lantana Consulting Group for the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST). It is part of a series of suitability analsyses on four healthcare standards performed under

Computer Security Division 2010 Annual Report

Computer Security Division 2010 Annual Report

This annual report covers the work conducted within the National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division during Fiscal Year 2010. It discusses all projects and programs within the Division, staff highlights, and publications.

IR 7751

Computer Security Division 2010 Annual Report

Using Security Configuration Checklists and the National Checklist Program

Using Security Configuration Checklists and the National Checklist Program

This bulletin summarizes the information presented in NIST Special Publication (SP) 800-70 Rev. 2, National Checklist Program for IT Products—Guidelines for Checklist Users and Developers: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and

Fluid interactions with metafilm/metasurfaces for tuning, sensing, and microwave assisted chemical processes

Fluid interactions with metafilm/metasurfaces for tuning, sensing, and microwave assisted chemical processes

In this paper we demonstrate tunability of a metafilm, which is the two-dimensional equivalent of a metamaterial, also referred to as a metasurface, by changing the permittivity in a micro-fluidic channel that interacts with the metafilm. Numerical

ITL Bulletin

Using Security Configuration Checklists and the National Checklist Program

Of Passwords and People: Measuring the Effect of Password-Composition Policies

Of Passwords and People: Measuring the Effect of Password-Composition Policies

Text-based passwords are the most common mechanism for authenticating humans to computer systems. To prevent users from picking passwords that are too easy for an adversary to guess, system administrators adopt password-composition policies (e.g

Modeling queuing dynamics of TCP: a simple model and its empirical validation.

Modeling queuing dynamics of TCP: a simple model and its empirical validation.

Understanding queuing dynamics of TCP is important for correct router buffer sizing as well as for optimizing the performance of the TCP protocol itself. However, modeling of buffer content dynamics under TCP has received relatively little attention given

Encryption Basics

Encryption Basics

Healthcare and health information technology professionals are entrusted with patient data which, because of its personal nature, requires protection to ensure its confidentiality. To provide this protection, these professionals frequently look to commonly

Journal Article

Encryption Basics

Multigate Mesh Routing for Smart Grid Last Mile Communications

Multigate Mesh Routing for Smart Grid Last Mile Communications

One of the most important issues in Smart Grid is to provide consumers with the knowledge of their energy usage, as well as allowing the utility to monitor and control the electric system components with real time status. This would require the design of a

A Joint Vehicle-Vehicle/Vehicle-Roadside Communication Protocol for Highway Traffic Safety

A Joint Vehicle-Vehicle/Vehicle-Roadside Communication Protocol for Highway Traffic Safety

In this paper, a joint vehicle-vehicle/vehicle-roadside communication protocol is proposed for cooperative collision avoiding in Vehicular Ad Hoc Networks (VANETs). In this protocol, emergency warning messages are simultaneously transmitted via Vehicle-to

NIST Handbook 150-17, NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

NIST Handbook 150-17, NVLAP Cryptographic and Security Testing

NIST Handbook 150-17 presents technical requirements and guidance for the accreditation of laboratories under the National Voluntary Laboratory Accreditation Program (NVLAP) Cryptogrpahic and Security Testing program. It is intended for information and use

BIOS Protection Guidelines

BIOS Protection Guidelines

This document provides guidelines for preventing the unauthorized modification of Basic Input/Output System (BIOS) firmware on PC client systems. Unauthorized modification of BIOS firmware by malicious software constitutes a significant threat because of

SP 800-147

BIOS Protection Guidelines

Toward Privacy Standards Based on Empirical Studies

Toward Privacy Standards Based on Empirical Studies

In this paper, we argue that if privacy standards are created to guide “do-not-track” technologies, it is imperative that these standards are created with the primary stakeholder in mind: the data subject. Previous privacy and security standards have been