Sunday, 24 November 2019

Wednesday, 9 October 2019

NIST standards

800-30 - Guide for Conducing Risk Assessments
https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-30r1.pdf

800-37: Risk Management Framework for Information Systems and Organizations: A System Life Cycle Approach for Security and Privacy
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-37/rev-2/final


800-39 - Managing Information Security Risk: Organization, Mission, and Information System View
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-39/final

800-53 - Security and Privacy Controls for Information Systems and Organizations
https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-53/rev-5/draft


800-154 - Guide to Data-Centric System Threat Modeling

https://csrc.nist.gov/publications/detail/sp/800-154/draft

800-115 - Penetration Testing

800-60: Volume 1: Guide for Mapping Types of Information and Information Systems to Security Categories

https://nvlpubs.nist.gov/nistpubs/Legacy/SP/nistspecialpublication800-60v1r1.pdf

NIST SP 800-53A,Guide for Assessing the Security
Controls in Federal Information Systems

Friday, 6 September 2019

NIST 800-82 Industrial Control Systems


NIST 800-82:


NIST Cyber Security Framework

Good 2019 paper on the NIST CSF:

https://www.oas.org/en/sms/cicte/docs/OAS-AWS-NIST-Cybersecurity-Framework(CSF)-ENG.pdf

The US identified 16 critical infrastructure sectors: Chemical; Commercial Facilities; Communications; Critical Manufacturing; Dams; Defense Industrial Base; Emergency Services; Energy; Financial Services; Food and Agriculture; Government Facilities; Healthcare and Public Health; Information Technology; Nuclear Reactors, Materials, and Waste; Transportation Systems; and Water and Wastewater Systems.

Sunday, 9 June 2019

SSL Inspection

The following gives a very good overview of the pros and cons of SSL inspection. Some I hadn't thought about.

https://www.helpnetsecurity.com/2017/03/08/https-interception-dilemma/


Good document from Symantec describing certificate pinning:

https://www.symantec.com/content/dam/symantec/docs/white-papers/certificate-pinning-en.pdf