Thursday, October 2, 2008

Blog: NIST Issues Three IT Security Documents; SP 800-115, Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

SANS New Bites: Vol. 10, Nu. 78; 10/03/2008

--NIST Issues Three IT Security Documents (October 2, 2008) The US National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released three documents that offer guidance on issues of information security. SP 800-121, Guide to Bluetooth Security, provides recommendations for securing implementations of Bluetooth technology. SP 800-115, Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment, offers guidance for designing and conducting security tests, analyzing the data generated by those tests, and implementing solutions to detected problems. Both documents are in final form.

SP 800-82, Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security, is a draft document providing recommendations for securing Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS) and other system configurations. Public comment on this document will be accepted through November 30, 2008.

http://www.gcn.com/online/vol1_no1/47273-1.html?topic=security

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-121/SP800-121.pdf

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-115/SP800-115.pdf

http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/drafts/800-82/draft_sp800-82-fpd.pdf

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