Nist Cloud Security Standards
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Nist cloud security standards. The nist definition of cloud computing peter mell timothy grance. This is the second edition of the nist cloud computing standards roadmap which has been developed by the members of the public nist cloud computing standards roadmap working group. Department of commerce. Nist and describes standards research in support of the nist cloud computing program.
Nist is responsible for developing information security standards and guidelines including minimum requirements for federal information systems but such standards and guidelines shall not apply to national security systems without the express approval of appropriate federal officials exercising policy authority over such systems. C o m p u t e r s e c u r i t y computer security division information technology laboratory. Cloud security guidelines and recommendations found in public private sources such as. Application container technologies also known as containers are a form of operating system virtualization combined with application software packaging.
Cloud computing is a model for enabling ubiquitous convenient on demand network access to a shared pool of configurable computing resources e g networks servers storage applications and services that can be rapidly provisioned and released with minimal management effort or service provider interaction. This publication explains the potential security concerns associated with the use of containers and provides recommendations for addressing these. Cloud security guidelines and recommendations described in open source literature such as nist or fedramp that address known or theorized cloud security concerns or considerations that have the potential to impact cloud data security. Such identification is not intended to imply recommendation or endorsement by the national institute of standards and technology.
National institute of standards and technology. This cloud model is composed of five essential characteristics three service. Containers provide a portable reusable and automatable way to package and run applications. This edition includes updates to the information on portability interoperability and security.
Nist cloud computing standards roadmap.