On December 20, 2021, The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its draft interagency report 8403 on “Blockchain for Access Control Systems”. As the report’s abstract states:
“Protecting system resources against unauthorized access is the primary objective of an access control system. As information systems rapidly evolve, the need for advanced access control
On October 22, 2020, the National Institute of Standards and Technology (“NIST”) published NIST Technical Note (TN) 2111, “An Empirical Study on Flow-based Botnet Attacks Prediction”. The note, authored by Mitsuhiro Hatada and Matthew Scholl of NIST’s Information Technology Laboratory, presents a method to predict botnet attacks, such as mass spam email and distributed denial-of-service
On December 5, 2017, NIST published a revised version of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (i.e., Draft 2 of Version 1.1) (“Framework”). According to NIST, Version 1.1 of the Framework refines, clarifies, and enhances Version 1.0 of the Framework issued in February 2014, and the recently published Draft 2 of Version 1.1 is informed by over
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January 10, 2017, NIST issued an update to the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (v.1.1). After reviewing public comment and convening a workshop, NIST intends to publish a final version of this Version 1.1 in the fall of 2017.
Key updates the framework include:
After its recent release of guidelines regarding self-driving cars, the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration released a set of “best practices” for cybersecurity in vehicles. The 22-page document encourages auto manufacturers to proactively incorporation security in their efforts a matter of course (e.g., privacy by design). The guidelines recommend a “layered approach” of protections
