82 FR 21979 - National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block
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National Institute of Standards and Technology Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 90 (May 11, 2017)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 90 (May 11, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 90 (Thursday, May 11, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 21979-21980] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-09502] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology [Docket No.: 170331340-7340-01] National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block AGENCY: National Institute of Standards and Technology, Department of Commerce. ACTION: Notice. ----------------------------------------------------------------------- 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud 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. 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 June 12, 2017. When the building block has been completed, NIST will post a notice on the NCCoE Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Web site at https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud 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 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. Letters of interest must be submitted to [email protected] or via hardcopy to National Institute of Standards and Technology, 100 Bureau Drive Mail Stop 2002 Gaithersburg, MD 20899. 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/library/nccoe-consortium-crada-example. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: Mike Bartock and Murugiah Souppaya via email to [email protected]; by telephone 301-975-5358; or by mail to National Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 100 Bureau Drive Mail Stop 2002 Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Additional details about the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud. 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block. The full building block can be viewed at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud. 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. 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. 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 this 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: The building block provides details about the implementation of trusted resource pools to aggregate trusted systems and segregate them from untrusted resources, which results in the separation of higher-value, more sensitive workloads from commodity application and data workloads. A detailed description of the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block is available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud. 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 5 of the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block (for reference, please see the link in the PROCESS section above) and include, but are not limited to: [[Page 21980]] 1. Commodity servers with hardware cryptographic module 2. Commodity network switches 3. Hypervisors 4. Operating systems 5. Application containers 6. Attestation server 7. Orchestration and management servers 8. Database servers 9. Directory servers 10. Software defined network 11. Data encryption and key management server 12. Cloud service Each responding organization's letter of interest should identify how its products address one or more of the following desired solution characteristics in section 3 of the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block (for reference, please see the link in the PROCESS section above): 1. Platform Attestation and Safer Hypervisor or Operating System Launch 2. Trust-Based Homogeneous Secure Migration within a Single Cloud Platform 3. Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Homogeneous Secure Migration within a Single Cloud Platform 4. Data Protection and Encryption Key Management Enforcement Based on Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Homogeneous Secure Migration within a Single Cloud Platform 5. Persistent Data Flow Segmentation Before and After the Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Homogeneous Secure Migration within a Single Cloud 6. Industry Sector Compliance Enforcement for Regulated Workloads Before and After the Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Homogeneous Secure Migration 7. Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Homogeneous and Policy Enforcement in a Secure Cloud Bursting across Two Cloud Platforms Responding organizations need to understand and, in their letters of interest, commit to provide: 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud 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) Additional details about the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block are available at https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud. NIST cannot guarantee that all 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block. These descriptions will be public information. Under the terms of the consortium CRADA, 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 Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block capability will be announced on the NCCoE Web site at least two weeks in advance at http://nccoe.nist.gov/. The expected outcome of the demonstration is to improve the trusted geolocation in the cloud 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 http://nccoe.nist.gov/. Kevin Kimball, Chief of Staff. 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Notification to Interested Parties public that it will no longer accept FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
This notice is issued and published in letters of interest for this building block. section of this notice. NIST will then
accordance with sections 516A(e)(1), ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at provide each interested party with a
751(a)(1), and 777(i)(1) of the Act. 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, letter of interest template, which the
Dated: May 5, 2017. MD 20850. Letters of interest must be party must complete, certify that it is
submitted to trusted-cloud-nccoe@ accurate, and submit to NIST. NIST will
Gary Taverman,
nist.gov or via hardcopy to National contact interested parties if there are
Associate Deputy Assistant Secretary for questions regarding the responsiveness
Institute of Standards and Technology,
Antidumping and Countervailing Duty
Operations. 100 Bureau Drive Mail Stop 2002 of the letters of interest to the building
Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Organizations block objective or requirements
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whose letters of interest are accepted in identified below. NIST will select
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accordance with the process set forth in participants who have submitted
the SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section complete letters of interest on a first
of this notice will be asked to sign a come, first served basis within each
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Cooperative Research and Development category of product components or
National Institute of Standards and Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. A capabilities listed below up to the
Technology CRADA template can be found at: number of participants in each category
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[Docket No.: 170331340–7340–01] consortium-crada-example. block. However, there may be
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: continuing opportunity to participate
National Cybersecurity Center of
Mike Bartock and Murugiah Souppaya even after initial activity commences.
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via email to trusted-cloud-nccoe@ Selected participants will be required to
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by mail to National Institute of NIST (for reference, see ADDRESSES
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 100 section above). NIST published a notice
and Technology, Department of Bureau Drive Mail Stop 2002 in the Federal Register on October 19,
Commerce. Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Additional 2012 (77 FR 64314), inviting U.S.
ACTION: Notice. details about the Trusted Geolocation in companies to enter into National
the Cloud Building Block are available Cybersecurity Excellence Partnerships
SUMMARY: The National Institute of at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/ (NCEPs) in furtherance of the NCCoE.
Standards and Technology (NIST) building_blocks/trusted_geolocation_in_ For this demonstration project, NCEP
invites organizations to provide the_cloud. partners will not be given priority for
products and technical expertise to participation.
SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION:
support and demonstrate security Background: The NCCoE, part of Building Block Objective: The
platforms for the Trusted Geolocation in NIST, is a public-private collaboration building block provides details about
the Cloud Building Block. This notice is for accelerating the widespread the implementation of trusted resource
the initial step for the National adoption of integrated cybersecurity pools to aggregate trusted systems and
Cybersecurity Center of Excellence tools and technologies. The NCCoE segregate them from untrusted
(NCCoE) in collaborating with brings together experts from industry, resources, which results in the
technology companies to address government, and academia under one separation of higher-value, more
cybersecurity challenges identified roof to develop practical, interoperable sensitive workloads from commodity
under the Trusted Geolocation in the cybersecurity approaches that address application and data workloads. A
Cloud Building Block. Participation in the real-world needs of complex detailed description of the Trusted
the building block is open to all Information Technology (IT) systems. Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block
interested organizations. By accelerating dissemination and use is available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/
DATES: Interested parties must contact of these integrated tools and projects/building_blocks/trusted_
NIST to request a letter of interest technologies for protecting IT assets, the geolocation_in_the_cloud.
template to be completed and submitted NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT Requirements: Each responding
to NIST. Letters of interest will be communications, data, and storage organization’s letter of interest should
accepted on a first come, first served systems; reduce risk for companies and identify which security platform
basis. Collaborative activities will individuals using IT systems; and component(s) or capability(ies) it is
commence as soon as enough completed encourage development of innovative, offering. Letters of interest should not
and signed letters of interest have been job-creating cybersecurity products and include company proprietary
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returned to address all the necessary services. information, and all components and
components and capabilities, but no Process: NIST is soliciting responses capabilities must be commercially
earlier than June 12, 2017. When the from all sources of relevant security available. Components are listed in
capabilities (see below) to enter into a section 5 of the Trusted Geolocation in
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1. Commodity servers with hardware are available at https://nccoe.nist.gov/ DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
cryptographic module projects/building_blocks/trusted_
2. Commodity network switches geolocation_in_the_cloud. National Institute of Standards and
3. Hypervisors Technology
4. Operating systems NIST cannot guarantee that all the
5. Application containers products proposed by respondents will
Request for Participation on
6. Attestation server be used in the demonstration. Each
Developing Industrial Wireless
7. Orchestration and management prospective participant will be expected
Systems Best Practices Guidelines
servers to work collaboratively with NIST staff
8. Database servers and other project participants under the AGENCY: National Institute of Standards
9. Directory servers terms of the consortium CRADA in the
10. Software defined network and Technology, Commerce.
development of the Trusted Geolocation
11. Data encryption and key in the Cloud Building Block. ACTION: Notice.
management server Prospective participants’ contribution to
12. Cloud service
the collaborative effort will include SUMMARY: The Intelligent Systems
Each responding organization’s letter Division of NIST is forming a technical
assistance in establishing the necessary
of interest should identify how its working group (TWG) to develop best
interface functionality, connection and
products address one or more of the
set-up capabilities and procedures, practices guidelines in selecting and
following desired solution
demonstration harnesses, environmental deploying industrial wireless solutions
characteristics in section 3 of the
Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud and safety conditions for use, integrated within industrial environments such as
Building Block (for reference, please see platform user instructions, and process control and manufacturing.
the link in the PROCESS section above): demonstration plans and scripts Guidelines will consider the entire
necessary to demonstrate the desired wireless ecosystem within factories with
1. Platform Attestation and Safer
Hypervisor or Operating System capabilities. Each participant will train emphasis on wireless networks
Launch NIST personnel, as necessary, to operate operating on the factory floor. This
2. Trust-Based Homogeneous Secure its product in capability includes factory/plant instrumentation,
Migration within a Single Cloud demonstrations. Following successful control systems, and back-haul
Platform demonstrations, NIST will publish a networks. The guidelines will be
3. Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based description of the security platform and technology and vendor agnostic and
Homogeneous Secure Migration its performance characteristics sufficient will address the current needs of
within a Single Cloud Platform to permit other organizations to develop industry to have independent guidelines
4. Data Protection and Encryption Key and deploy security platforms that meet based on user requirements and
Management Enforcement Based on the security objectives of the Trusted measurement science research.
Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based Geolocation in the Cloud Building
Homogeneous Secure Migration Block. These descriptions will be public DATES: Intention to participate must be
within a Single Cloud Platform information. received by 180 days after date of
5. Persistent Data Flow Segmentation publication in the Federal Register.
Before and After the Trust-Based and Under the terms of the consortium
CRADA, NIST will support ADDRESSES: Intention to participate may
Geolocation-Based Homogeneous be submitted in one of two ways.
Secure Migration within a Single development of interfaces among
Cloud participants’ products by providing IT • By sending an email to iwstwg@
6. Industry Sector Compliance infrastructure, laboratory facilities, nist.gov.
Enforcement for Regulated Workloads office facilities, collaboration facilities, • By written request: National
Before and After the Trust-Based and and staff support to component Institute of Standards and Technology
Geolocation-Based Homogeneous composition, security platform
ATTN: Richard Candell 100 Bureau
Secure Migration documentation, and demonstration
Drive, Stop 8230 Gaithersburg, MD
7. Trust-Based and Geolocation-Based activities. The dates of the
20899–8615.
Homogeneous and Policy demonstration of the Trusted
Enforcement in a Secure Cloud Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block Please direct media inquiries to
Bursting across Two Cloud Platforms capability will be announced on the NIST’s Office of Public Affairs at 301–
Responding organizations need to NCCoE Web site at least two weeks in 975–2762.
understand and, in their letters of advance at http://nccoe.nist.gov/. The SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: More
interest, commit to provide: expected outcome of the demonstration information on industrial wireless
1. Access for all participants’ project is to improve the trusted geolocation in systems research may be found on the
teams to component interfaces and the cloud within the enterprise. NIST home page for Industrial Wireless
the organization’s experts necessary to Participating organizations will gain Systems at https://www.nist.gov/
make functional connections among from the knowledge that their products programs-projects/wireless-systems-
security platform components are interoperable with other industrial-environments.
2. Support for development and participants’ offerings. For additional
demonstration of the Trusted information on the NCCoE governance, Kevin Kimball,
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Geolocation in the Cloud Building business processes, and NCCoE NIST Chief of Staff.
Block in NCCoE facilities which will operational structure, visit the NCCoE [FR Doc. 2017–09503 Filed 5–10–17; 8:45 am]
be conducted in a manner consistent Web site http://nccoe.nist.gov/. BILLING CODE 3510–13–P
with Federal requirements (e.g., FIPS
200, FIPS 201, SP 800–53, and SP Kevin Kimball,
800–63) Chief of Staff.
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| Dates | Interested parties must contact NIST to request a letter of interest template to be completed and submitted to NIST. Letters of interest will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. Collaborative activities will commence as soon as enough completed and | |
| Contact | Mike Bartock and Murugiah Souppaya via email to [email protected]; by telephone 301-975-5358; or by mail to National Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 100 Bureau Drive Mail Stop 2002 Gaithersburg, MD 20899. Additional details about the Trusted Geolocation in the Cloud Building Block are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/building_blocks/ trusted_geolocation_in_the_cloud. | |
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