National Institute of Standards and Technology August 9, 2005 – Federal Register Recent Federal Regulation Documents

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) announces the first in a series of planned workshops being held in support of NIST's Software Assurance Metrics and Tool Evaluation (SAMATE) project. NIST is working with industry, academia, and users: To identify deficiencies in software assurance (SA) methods and tools To develop metrics for the effectiveness of SA tools. NIST invites parties interested in these issues to contribute to the specification of such metrics and to the development of reference data sets capable of testing the effectiveness of SA tools. These reference data sets, when used during an SA tool's development, can aid in building a correct implementation with regard to these metrics. The first workshop ``Defining the State of the Art in Software Security Tools'' is being held at NIST Gaithersburg August 10 and 11. Future Workshops will be announced on the Project's Web site https:// samate.nist.gov/ and on other SA forums.