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NIST Special Publications

• Special Publications in the 800 series present documents of general interest to the computer security community. The Special Publication 800 series was established in 1990 to provide a separate identity for information technology security publications. This Special Publication 800 series reports on ITL's research, guidelines, and outreach efforts in computer security, and its collaborative activities with industry, government, and academic organizations.

FIPS

• Under the Information Technology Management Reform Act (Public Law 104-106), the Secretary of Commerce approves standards and guidelines that are developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) for Federal computer systems. These standards and guidelines are issued by NIST as Federal Information Processing Standards (FIPS) for use government-wide. NIST develops FIPS when there are compelling Federal government requirements such as for security and interoperability and there are no acceptable industry standards or solutions.

FISMA

• The FISMA Implementation Project was established in January 2003 to produce several key security standards and guidelines required by Congressional legislation. These publications include FIPS 199, FIPS 200, and NIST Special Publications 800-53, 800-59, and 800-60. Additional security guidance documents are being developed in support of the project including NIST Special Publications 800-37, and 800-53A.

US-CERT

• US-CERT provides a way for citizens, businesses, and other institutions to communicate and coordinate with the United States government regarding cyber security. The National Cyber Alert System offers a variety of information for users such as the Technical Cyber Security Alerts and Cyber Security Bulletins. The US-CERT Current Activity web page is updated frequently to summarize the most frequent, high-impact types of security incidents being reported.