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The Case for Flexible NIST Security Standards.

The article discusses the role of the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) in issuing information system security standards (ISS). The Computer Security Act of 1987 and the Federal Information Security Act of 2002 (FISMA) established the NIST's authority to issue computer secur...

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Published in:Computer (00189162) Vol. 40; no. 6; pp. 19 - 27
Main Authors: Keblawi, Feisal, Sullivan, Dick
Format: Article
Published: IEEE Jun2007
Subjects:
National Institute of Standards & Technology (U.S.)
Computer security standards
Computer security laws
Computer network security
Internet protocols
Risk management in business
GOSIP (Computer network standard)
Legacy systems
Government policy
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