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submission of LoIs, NIST invites
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III. Data
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and Technology (NIST), Department of
Commerce.
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AGENCY:
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effort to reduce paperwork and
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proposed and/or continuing information
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2015.
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copies of the information collection
instrument and instructions should be
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Dr., Rockville, MD 20850 or
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I. Abstract
In order to fulfill its core mission, the
National Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence (NCCoE) publishes
announcements in the Federal Register
of new collaborative projects to address
cybersecurity challenges. In response to
these announcements, technology
vendors are invited to submit Letters of
Interest (LoI) for technologies relevant to
the challenge. These letters specify the
product(s) that the potential collaborator
is submitting for consideration, how the
product(s) address(es) one or more of
the requirements of the project, and
contact information for the company’s
representative. Subsequent to the
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Type of Review: New Information
Collection.
Affected Public: Businesses or other
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Estimated Number of Respondents:
100 per year.
Estimated Time per Response: 30
minutes.
Estimated Total Annual Burden
Hours: 50 hours.
Estimated Total Annual Cost to
Public: $0.
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the proposed collection of information
is necessary for the proper performance
of the functions of the agency, including
whether the information shall have
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agency’s estimate of the burden
(including hours and cost) of the
proposed collection of information; (c)
ways to enhance the quality, utility, and
clarity of the information to be
collected; and (d) ways to minimize the
burden of the collection of information
on respondents, including through the
use of automated collection techniques
or other forms of information
technology.
Comments submitted in response to
this notice will be summarized and/or
included in the request for OMB
approval of this information collection;
they also will become a matter of public
record.
Dated: August 10, 2015.
Glenna Mickelson,
Management Analyst, Office of the Chief
Information Officer.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
[Docket Number: 150508436–5436–01]
National Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence, Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites organizations to provide
products and technical expertise to
support and demonstrate security
platforms for the Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block. This notice is
the initial step for the National
Cybersecurity Center of Excellence
(NCCoE) in collaborating with
technology companies to address
cybersecurity challenges identified
under the Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block. Participation in
the building block is open to all
interested organizations.
DATES: Interested parties must contact
NIST to request a letter of interest
template to be completed and submitted
to NIST that identifies the organization
requesting participation in the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block
and the capabilities and components
that are being offered to the
collaborative effort. Letters of interest
will be accepted on a first come, first
served basis. Collaborative activities
will commence as soon as enough
completed and signed letters of interest
have been returned to address all the
necessary components and capabilities,
but no earlier than September 14, 2015.
When the building block has been
completed, NIST will post a notice on
the NCCoE Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block Web site at
https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attributebased-access-control announcing the
completion of the building block and
informing the public that it will no
longer accept letters of interest for this
building block.
ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
20850. Letters of interest must be
submitted to abac-nccoe@nist.gov or via
hardcopy to National Institute of
Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD
20850. Organizations whose letters of
interest are accepted in accordance with
the process set forth in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
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this notice will be asked to sign a
Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. A
CRADA template can be found at:
https://nccoe.nist.gov/node/138.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill
Fisher via email at to abac-nccoe@
nist.gov, by telephone 240–314–6838; or
by mail to National Institute of
Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD
20850. Additional details about the
Attribute Based Access Control Building
Block are available at https://
nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-basedaccess-control.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NCCoE, part of NIST, is a publicprivate collaboration for accelerating the
widespread adoption of integrated
cybersecurity tools and technologies.
The NCCoE brings together experts from
industry, government, and academia
under one roof to develop practical,
interoperable cybersecurity approaches
that address the real-world needs of
complex Information Technology (IT)
systems. By accelerating dissemination
and use of these integrated tools and
technologies for protecting IT assets, the
NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT
communications, data, and storage
systems; reduce risk for companies and
individuals using IT systems; and
encourage development of innovative,
job-creating cybersecurity products and
services.
Process
NIST is soliciting responses from all
sources of relevant security capabilities
(see below) to enter into a Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) to provide products and
technical expertise to support and
demonstrate security platforms for the
Attribute Based Access Control Building
Block. The full building block can be
viewed at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/
attribute-based-access-control.
Interested parties should contact NIST
using the information provided in the
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FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
section of this notice. NIST will then
provide each interested party with a
letter of interest template, which the
party must complete, certify that it is
accurate, and submit to NIST and which
identifies the organization requesting
participation in the Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block and the
capabilities and components that are
being offered to the collaborative effort.
NIST will contact interested parties if
there are questions regarding the
responsiveness of the letters of interest
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to the building block objective or
requirements identified below and to
obtain additional information. NIST will
select participants who have submitted
complete letters of interest on a first
come, first served basis within each
category of product components or
capabilities listed below up to the
number of participants in each category
necessary to carry out the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block.
However, there may be continuing
opportunity to participate even after
initial activity commences. Selected
participants will be required to enter
into a consortium CRADA with NIST
(for reference, see ADDRESSES section
above). NIST published a notice in the
Federal Register on October 19, 2012
(77 FR 64314) inviting U.S. companies
to enter into National Cybersecurity
Excellence Partnerships (NCEPs) in
furtherance of the NCCoE. For this
demonstration project, NCEP partners
will not be given priority for
participation.
Building Block Objective
Enterprises face the continual
challenge of providing access control
mechanisms for subjects requesting
access to corporate resources (e.g.
applications, networks, systems and
data). Authentication is required for a
diverse set of subjects, who may be
known or unknown to the enterprise,
and may present the organization with
differing credentials. Once
authenticated, enterprises require a
strong authorization system that enables
fine-grain access decisions based on a
range of users, resources, and
environmental conditions. These
challenges, combined with the growth
and distributed nature of enterprise
resources, as well as the need to share
information among stakeholders that are
not managed directly by the enterprise,
has spawned the demand for highly
flexible access control mechanisms.
This building block will use
commercially available technologies to
demonstrate an enterprise Attribute
Based Access Control implementation
that makes run-time authorization
decisions and enforces a rich set of
access control policies consistently
across an enterprise (or enterprises).
Information about a subject, the
resource being accessed, and the
environmental context at the time of
attempted access shall form the basis for
access control decisions, rather than
pre-provisioned privileges within
individual systems.
Through the use of an attribute
exchange platform, this project will
exhibit a federated access control
environment, allowing for the secure
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sharing of IT resources across multiple
enterprises. In this manner, enterprises
enable unanticipated, yet valid,
federated identities to gain access,
without the traditional challenge of
waiting for identity provisioning or
authorization approvals.
A detailed description of the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block
are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/
content/attribute-based-access-control.
Requirements
Each responding organization’s letter
of interest should identify which
security platform component(s) or
capability(ies) it is offering. Letters of
interest should not include company
proprietary information, and all
components and capabilities must be
commercially available. Components are
listed in section ten of the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block
(for reference, please see the link in the
PROCESS section above) and include, but
are not limited to:
• Identity management software that
includes functions like: Account
provisioning, de-provisioning and
directory services
• Platform for exchanging attributes
• Federation server
• Databases for policy database,
identity store, subject attribute
repository, object and attribute
repository
• Policy server, to serve as the policy
administration point
• Access management system, which
may include the policy decision point,
policy enforcement point and context
handler
• Authentication server and
components supporting two factor
authentication
• Cryptographic means to protect
subject privacy during interactions
between RPs, IDPs, APs and the
attribute exchange platform.
Each responding organization’s letter
of interest should identify how their
product(s) address one or more of the
desired solution characteristics in
section five of the Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block
description (for reference, please see
link in PROCESS section above).
Additional details about the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block
are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/
content/attribute-based-access-control.
NIST cannot guarantee that all of the
products proposed by respondents will
be used in the demonstration. Each
prospective participant will be expected
to work collaboratively with NIST staff
and other project participants under the
terms of the consortium CRADA in the
development of the Attribute Based
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Access Control Building Block.
Prospective participants’ contribution to
the collaborative effort will include
assistance in establishing the necessary
interface functionality, connection and
set-up capabilities and procedures,
demonstration harnesses, environmental
and safety conditions for use, integrated
platform user instructions, and
demonstration plans and scripts
necessary to demonstrate the desired
capabilities. Each participant will train
NIST personnel, as necessary, to operate
its product in capability
demonstrations. Following successful
demonstrations, NIST will publish a
description of the security platform and
its performance characteristics sufficient
to permit other organizations to develop
and deploy security platforms that meet
the security objectives of the Attribute
Based Access Control Building Block.
These descriptions will be public
information.
Under the terms of the consortium
CRADA, participants will commit to
providing:
1. Access for all participants’ project
teams to component interfaces and
the organization’s experts necessary
to make functional connections
among security platform
components
2. Support for development and
demonstration of the Attribute
Based Access Control Building
Block in NCCoE facilities which
will be conducted in a manner
consistent with Federal
requirements (e.g., FIPS 200, FIPS
201, SP 800–53, and SP 800–63)
In addition, NIST will support
development of interfaces among
participants’ products by providing IT
infrastructure, laboratory facilities,
office facilities, collaboration facilities,
and staff support to component
composition, security platform
documentation, and demonstration
activities.
The dates of the demonstration of the
Attribute Based Access Control Building
Block capability will be announced on
the NCCoE Web site at least two weeks
in advance at https://nccoe.nist.gov/. The
expected outcome of the demonstration
is to improve Attribute Based Access
Control within the enterprise.
Participating organizations will gain
from the knowledge that their products
are interoperable with other
participants’ offerings.
For additional information on the
NCCoE governance, business processes,
and NCCoE operational structure, visit
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nccoe.nist.gov/.
Richard Cavanagh,
Acting Associate Director for Laboratory
Programs.
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and
Technology
[Docket No.: 150805680–5680–01]
National Cybersecurity Center of
Excellence, Derived Personal Identity
Verification Credentials Building Block
National Institute of Standards
and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
AGENCY:
The National Institute of
Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites organizations to provide
products and technical expertise to
support and demonstrate security
platforms for the Derived Personal
Identity Verification (PIV) Credentials
Building Block. This notice is the initial
step for the National Cybersecurity
Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in
collaborating with technology
companies to address cybersecurity
challenges identified under the Derived
PIV Credentials Building Block.
Participation in the building block is
open to all interested organizations.
DATES: Interested parties must contact
NIST to request a letter of interest
template to be completed and submitted
to NIST that identifies the organization
requesting participation in the NCCoE
Derived PIV Credentials Building Block
and the capabilities and components
that are being offered to the
collaborative effort. Letters of interest
will be accepted on a first come, first
served basis. Collaborative activities
will commence as soon as enough
completed and signed letters of interest
have been returned to address all the
necessary components and capabilities,
but no earlier than September 14, 2015.
When the building block has been
completed, NIST will post a notice on
the NCCoE Derived PIV Credentials
Building Block Web site at https://
nccoe.nist.gov/derivedcredentials/
announcing the completion of the
building block and informing the public
that it will no longer accept letters of
interest for this Derived PIV Credentials
building block.
ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at
9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
SUMMARY:
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20850. Letters of interest may be
submitted to piv-nccoe@nist.gov or via
hardcopy to National Institute of
Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD
20850. Organizations whose letters of
interest are accepted in accordance with
the process set forth in the
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
this notice will be asked to sign a
Cooperative Research and Development
Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. A
CRADA template can be found at:
https://nccoe.nist.gov/node/138.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Tim
McBride via email to piv-nccoe@
nist.gov; by telephone 240–314–6811; or
by mail to National Institute of
Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD
20850. Additional details about the
Derived PIV Credentials Building Block
are available at https://nccoe.nist.gov/
derivedcredentials/.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NCCoE, part of NIST, is a publicprivate collaboration for accelerating the
widespread adoption of integrated
cybersecurity tools and technologies.
The NCCoE brings together experts from
industry, government, and academia
under one roof to develop practical,
interoperable cybersecurity approaches
that address the real-world needs of
complex Information Technology (IT)
systems. By accelerating dissemination
and use of these integrated tools and
technologies for protecting IT assets, the
NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT
communications, data, and storage
systems; reduce risk for companies and
individuals using IT systems; and
encourage development of innovative,
job-creating cybersecurity products and
services.
Process
NIST is soliciting responses from all
sources of relevant security capabilities
(see below) to enter into a Cooperative
Research and Development Agreement
(CRADA) to provide products and
technical expertise to support and
demonstrate security platforms for the
Derived PIV Credentials building block.
The full Derived Personal Identity
Verification (PIV) Credentials building
block can be viewed at: https://
nccoe.nist.gov/derivedcredentials/.
Interested parties must contact NIST
to request a letter of interest template to
be completed and submitted to NIST
that identifies the organization
requesting participation in the NCCoE
Derived PIV Credentials Building Block
and the capabilities and components
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DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology
[Docket Number: 150508436-5436-01]
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence, Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of
Commerce.
ACTION: Notice.
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)
invites organizations to provide products and technical expertise to
support and demonstrate security platforms for the Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block. This notice is the initial step for the
National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) in collaborating
with technology companies to address cybersecurity challenges
identified under the Attribute Based Access Control Building Block.
Participation in the building block is open to all interested
organizations.
DATES: Interested parties must contact NIST to request a letter of
interest template to be completed and submitted to NIST that identifies
the organization requesting participation in the Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block and the capabilities and components that are
being offered to the collaborative effort. Letters of interest will be
accepted on a first come, first served basis. Collaborative activities
will commence as soon as enough completed and signed letters of
interest have been returned to address all the necessary components and
capabilities, but no earlier than September 14, 2015. When the building
block has been completed, NIST will post a notice on the NCCoE
Attribute Based Access Control Building Block Web site at https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-based-access-control announcing the
completion of the building block and informing the public that it will
no longer accept letters of interest for this building block.
ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at 9600 Gudelsky Drive, Rockville, MD
20850. Letters of interest must be submitted to abac-nccoe@nist.gov or
via hardcopy to National Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
9600 Gudelsky Drive; Rockville, MD 20850. Organizations whose letters
of interest are accepted in accordance with the process set forth in
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
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this notice will be asked to sign a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. A CRADA template can be found
at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/node/138.
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Bill Fisher via email at to abac-nccoe@nist.gov, by telephone 240-314-6838; or by mail to National
Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 9600 Gudelsky Drive;
Rockville, MD 20850. Additional details about the Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block are available at https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-based-access-control.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
Background
The NCCoE, part of NIST, is a public-private collaboration for
accelerating the widespread adoption of integrated cybersecurity tools
and technologies. The NCCoE brings together experts from industry,
government, and academia under one roof to develop practical,
interoperable cybersecurity approaches that address the real-world
needs of complex Information Technology (IT) systems. By accelerating
dissemination and use of these integrated tools and technologies for
protecting IT assets, the NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT
communications, data, and storage systems; reduce risk for companies
and individuals using IT systems; and encourage development of
innovative, job-creating cybersecurity products and services.
Process
NIST is soliciting responses from all sources of relevant security
capabilities (see below) to enter into a Cooperative Research and
Development Agreement (CRADA) to provide products and technical
expertise to support and demonstrate security platforms for the
Attribute Based Access Control Building Block. The full building block
can be viewed at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-based-access-control.
Interested parties should contact NIST using the information
provided in the FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT section of this notice.
NIST will then provide each interested party with a letter of interest
template, which the party must complete, certify that it is accurate,
and submit to NIST and which identifies the organization requesting
participation in the Attribute Based Access Control Building Block and
the capabilities and components that are being offered to the
collaborative effort. NIST will contact interested parties if there are
questions regarding the responsiveness of the letters of interest to
the building block objective or requirements identified below and to
obtain additional information. NIST will select participants who have
submitted complete letters of interest on a first come, first served
basis within each category of product components or capabilities listed
below up to the number of participants in each category necessary to
carry out the Attribute Based Access Control Building Block. However,
there may be continuing opportunity to participate even after initial
activity commences. Selected participants will be required to enter
into a consortium CRADA with NIST (for reference, see ADDRESSES section
above). NIST published a notice in the Federal Register on October 19,
2012 (77 FR 64314) inviting U.S. companies to enter into National
Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships (NCEPs) in furtherance of the
NCCoE. For this demonstration project, NCEP partners will not be given
priority for participation.
Building Block Objective
Enterprises face the continual challenge of providing access
control mechanisms for subjects requesting access to corporate
resources (e.g. applications, networks, systems and data).
Authentication is required for a diverse set of subjects, who may be
known or unknown to the enterprise, and may present the organization
with differing credentials. Once authenticated, enterprises require a
strong authorization system that enables fine-grain access decisions
based on a range of users, resources, and environmental conditions.
These challenges, combined with the growth and distributed nature of
enterprise resources, as well as the need to share information among
stakeholders that are not managed directly by the enterprise, has
spawned the demand for highly flexible access control mechanisms.
This building block will use commercially available technologies to
demonstrate an enterprise Attribute Based Access Control implementation
that makes run-time authorization decisions and enforces a rich set of
access control policies consistently across an enterprise (or
enterprises). Information about a subject, the resource being accessed,
and the environmental context at the time of attempted access shall
form the basis for access control decisions, rather than pre-
provisioned privileges within individual systems.
Through the use of an attribute exchange platform, this project
will exhibit a federated access control environment, allowing for the
secure sharing of IT resources across multiple enterprises. In this
manner, enterprises enable unanticipated, yet valid, federated
identities to gain access, without the traditional challenge of waiting
for identity provisioning or authorization approvals.
A detailed description of the Attribute Based Access Control
Building Block are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-based-access-control.
Requirements
Each responding organization's letter of interest should identify
which security platform component(s) or capability(ies) it is offering.
Letters of interest should not include company proprietary information,
and all components and capabilities must be commercially available.
Components are listed in section ten of the Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block (for reference, please see the link in the
PROCESS section above) and include, but are not limited to:
Identity management software that includes functions like:
Account provisioning, de-provisioning and directory services
Platform for exchanging attributes
Federation server
Databases for policy database, identity store, subject
attribute repository, object and attribute repository
Policy server, to serve as the policy administration point
Access management system, which may include the policy
decision point, policy enforcement point and context handler
Authentication server and components supporting two factor
authentication
Cryptographic means to protect subject privacy during
interactions between RPs, IDPs, APs and the attribute exchange
platform.
Each responding organization's letter of interest should identify
how their product(s) address one or more of the desired solution
characteristics in section five of the Attribute Based Access Control
Building Block description (for reference, please see link in PROCESS
section above).
Additional details about the Attribute Based Access Control
Building Block are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/content/attribute-based-access-control.
NIST cannot guarantee that all of the products proposed by
respondents will be used in the demonstration. Each prospective
participant will be expected to work collaboratively with NIST staff
and other project participants under the terms of the consortium CRADA
in the development of the Attribute Based
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Access Control Building Block. Prospective participants' contribution
to the collaborative effort will include assistance in establishing the
necessary interface functionality, connection and set-up capabilities
and procedures, demonstration harnesses, environmental and safety
conditions for use, integrated platform user instructions, and
demonstration plans and scripts necessary to demonstrate the desired
capabilities. Each participant will train NIST personnel, as necessary,
to operate its product in capability demonstrations. Following
successful demonstrations, NIST will publish a description of the
security platform and its performance characteristics sufficient to
permit other organizations to develop and deploy security platforms
that meet the security objectives of the Attribute Based Access Control
Building Block. These descriptions will be public information.
Under the terms of the consortium CRADA, participants will commit
to providing:
1. Access for all participants' project teams to component interfaces
and the organization's experts necessary to make functional connections
among security platform components
2. Support for development and demonstration of the Attribute Based
Access Control Building Block in NCCoE facilities which will be
conducted in a manner consistent with Federal requirements (e.g., FIPS
200, FIPS 201, SP 800-53, and SP 800-63)
In addition, NIST will support development of interfaces among
participants' products by providing IT infrastructure, laboratory
facilities, office facilities, collaboration facilities, and staff
support to component composition, security platform documentation, and
demonstration activities.
The dates of the demonstration of the Attribute Based Access
Control Building Block capability will be announced on the NCCoE Web
site at least two weeks in advance at https://nccoe.nist.gov/. The
expected outcome of the demonstration is to improve Attribute Based
Access Control within the enterprise. Participating organizations will
gain from the knowledge that their products are interoperable with
other participants' offerings.
For additional information on the NCCoE governance, business
processes, and NCCoE operational structure, visit the NCCoE Web site
https://nccoe.nist.gov/.
Richard Cavanagh,
Acting Associate Director for Laboratory Programs.
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