82 FR 61257 - National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
National Institute of Standards and Technology Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 247 (December 27, 2017)
National Institute of Standards and Technology
Federal Register Volume 82, Issue 247 (December 27, 2017)
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[Federal Register Volume 82, Number 247 (Wednesday, December 27, 2017)] [Notices] [Pages 61257-61258] From the Federal Register Online [www.thefederalregister.org] [FR Doc No: 2017-27869] ----------------------------------------------------------------------- DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE National Institute of Standards and Technology [Docket No. 171205999-7999-01] National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector. 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 Financial Services sector program. Participation in the use case 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 January 26, 2018. When the use case has been completed, NIST will post a notice on the NCCoE Financial Services sector program website at https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management announcing the completion of the use case and informing the public that it will no longer accept letters of interest for this use case. 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, NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, 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 consortium Cooperative Research and Development Agreement (CRADA) with NIST. An NCCoE consortium CRADA template can be found at: http://nccoe.nist.gov/node/138. FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: James Banoczi via email to [email protected]; by telephone 301-975-0200; or by mail to National Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. Additional details about the Financial Services sector program are available at https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management. 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services Sector. The full use case can be viewed at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management. 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 use case 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 use case. 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. Use Case Objective: Privileged Account Management (PAM) is a domain within Identity and Access Management (IdAM) that focuses on monitoring and controlling the use of privileged accounts. Privileged accounts are the IT system accounts that include local and domain administrative accounts, emergency accounts, application management, and service accounts. These powerful accounts provide elevated, often nonrestricted access to the underlying IT resources [[Page 61258]] and technology, which is why attackers or malicious insiders seek to gain access to them. Hence, it is critical to monitor, audit, control, and manage privileged account usage. Many organizations, including financial sector companies, face challenges managing privileged accounts. To address these challenges, the National Cybersecurity Center of Excellence (NCCoE) plans to demonstrate a PAM capability that effectively protects, monitors, and manages privileged account access. The project addresses privileged account life cycle management, authentication, authorization, auditing, and access controls. A detailed description of the Privileged Account Management is available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management. 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 3 of the Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector use case (for reference, please see the link in the PROCESS section above) and include, but are not limited to:Privileged account control Privileged account command filtering (allow or deny specific comments, such as disk formatting) Multifactor authentication capability Access logging/database system Password management Separation of duties management Support least privileged policies Password obfuscation (hiding passwords from PAM users) Temporary accounts Log management (analytics, storage, alerting) Each responding organization's letter of interest should identify how their products address one or more of the following desired solution characteristics in section 3 of the Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector use case (for reference, please see the link in the PROCESS section above): 1. Is easy to use for both PAM system administrators and PAM system users. 2. Provides protection for data at rest and data in transit. 3. Is complementary to existing access management. 4. Integrates with directories. 5. Provides account use control (policy enforcement and decision making). 6. Provides system command control. 7. Counters password obfuscation (hidden passwords). 8. Supports password management (vaults, changes, storage). 9. Supports activity logging (textual and video). 10. Supports real time activity monitoring. 11. Includes support functions needed by the typical user. 12. Supports privilege escalation management. 13. Supports forensic investigation data management. 14. Provides support for workflow management. 15. Enables emergency (break glass) scenario support. 16. Includes policy management support. 17. Supports single sign-on. 18. Permits system and privileged account discovery. 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector use case in NCCoE facilities which will be conducted in a manner consistent with the following standards and guidance: FIPS 140-2, FIPS 199, FIPS 200, FIPS 201, SP 800-53, and SP 800-63. Additional details about the Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector use case are available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management. 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector capability. 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 to the Financial Services community. 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector use case. 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 Privileged Account Management for the Financial Services sector capability will be announced on the NCCoE website at least two weeks in advance at http://nccoe.nist.gov/. The expected outcome of the demonstration is to improve privileged account management across an entire Financial Services sector 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 website http://nccoe.nist.gov/. Kevin Kimball, NIST Chief of Staff. [FR Doc. 2017-27869 Filed 12-26-17; 8:45 am] BILLING CODE 3510-13-P
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(i) Able to transport between 100 and 150 sector. This notice is the initial step for By accelerating dissemination and use
passengers and their luggage on routes equal the National Cybersecurity Center of of these integrated tools and
to or longer than 2,900 nautical miles; or Excellence (NCCoE) in collaborating technologies for protecting IT assets, the
(ii) covered by a U.S. Federal Aviation
with technology companies to address NCCoE will enhance trust in U.S. IT
Administration (FAA) type certificate or
supplemental type certificate that also covers cybersecurity challenges identified communications, data, and storage
other aircraft with a minimum 2,900 nautical under the Financial Services sector systems; reduce risk for companies and
mile range. program. Participation in the use case is individuals using IT systems; and
The scope includes all aircraft covered by open to all interested organizations. encourage development of innovative,
the description above, regardless of whether DATES: Interested parties must contact job-creating cybersecurity products and
they enter the United States fully or partially NIST to request a letter of interest services.
assembled, and regardless of whether, at the template to be completed and submitted Process: NIST is soliciting responses
time of entry into the United States, they are from all sources of relevant security
approved for use by the FAA.
to NIST. Letters of interest will be
accepted on a first come, first served capabilities (see below) to enter into a
The merchandise covered by this
investigation is currently classifiable under basis. Collaborative activities will Cooperative Research and Development
Harmonized Tariff Schedule of the United commence as soon as enough completed Agreement (CRADA) to provide
States (HTSUS) subheading 8802.40.0040. and signed letters of interest have been products and technical expertise to
The merchandise may alternatively be returned to address all the necessary support and demonstrate security
classifiable under HTSUS subheading components and capabilities, but no platforms for the Privileged Account
8802.40.0090. Although these HTSUS earlier than January 26, 2018. When the Management for the Financial Services
subheadings are provided for convenience use case has been completed, NIST will Sector. The full use case can be viewed
and customs purposes, the written post a notice on the NCCoE Financial at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-
description of the scope of the investigation cases/privileged-account-management.
is dispositive.
Services sector program website at
https://nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use- Interested parties should contact NIST
Appendix II cases/privileged-account-management using the information provided in the
announcing the completion of the use FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT
List of Topics in the Issues and Decision section of this notice. NIST will then
Memorandum case and informing the public that it
will no longer accept letters of interest provide each interested party with a
I. Summary letter of interest template, which the
II. Background for this use case.
party must complete, certify that it is
III. Scope Comments ADDRESSES: The NCCoE is located at
accurate, and submit to NIST. NIST will
IV. Scope of the Investigation 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville,
V. Discussion of the Issues: contact interested parties if there are
MD 20850. Letters of interest must be
Comment 1: Application of Adverse Facts questions regarding the responsiveness
submitted to Financial_NCCoE@nist.gov
Available of the letters of interest to the use case
or via hardcopy to National Institute of
Comment 2: Whether Sales or Likely Sales objective or requirements identified
Standards and Technology, NCCoE;
Occurred During the POI below. NIST will select participants
9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville,
Comment 3: Adequacy of Petition who have submitted complete letters of
Comment 4: Revision of the Seating MD 20850. Organizations whose letters
interest on a first come, first served
Capacity of interest are accepted in accordance
basis within each category of product
Comment 5: Removal of Nautical Mile with the process set forth in the components or capabilities listed below
Range Criterion SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION section of
up to the number of participants in each
Comment 6: Airbus-Bombardier this notice will be asked to sign a
Transaction category necessary to carry out this use
consortium Cooperative Research and case. However, there may be continuing
VI. Recommendation Development Agreement (CRADA) with opportunity to participate even after
[FR Doc. 2017–27874 Filed 12–26–17; 8:45 am] NIST. An NCCoE consortium CRADA initial activity commences. Selected
BILLING CODE 3510–DS–P template can be found at: http:// participants will be required to enter
nccoe.nist.gov/node/138. into a consortium CRADA with NIST
FOR FURTHER INFORMATION CONTACT: (for reference, see ADDRESSES section
DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE James Banoczi via email to Financial_ above). NIST published a notice in the
NCCoE@nist.gov; by telephone 301– Federal Register on October 19, 2012
National Institute of Standards and
975–0200; or by mail to National (77 FR 64314) inviting U.S. companies
Technology
Institute of Standards and Technology, to enter into National Cybersecurity
[Docket No. 171205999–7999–01] NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Excellence Partnerships (NCEPs) in
Rockville, MD 20850. Additional details furtherance of the NCCoE. For this
National Cybersecurity Center of about the Financial Services sector demonstration project, NCEP partners
Excellence (NCCoE) Privileged program are available at https:// will not be given priority for
Account Management for the Financial nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/ participation.
Services Sector privileged-account-management. Use Case Objective: Privileged
AGENCY: National Institute of Standards SUPPLEMENTARY INFORMATION: Account Management (PAM) is a
and Technology, Department of Background: The NCCoE, part of domain within Identity and Access
Commerce. NIST, is a public-private collaboration Management (IdAM) that focuses on
ACTION: Notice. for accelerating the widespread monitoring and controlling the use of
adoption of integrated cybersecurity privileged accounts. Privileged accounts
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SUMMARY: The National Institute of tools and technologies. The NCCoE are the IT system accounts that include
Standards and Technology (NIST) brings together experts from industry, local and domain administrative
invites organizations to provide government, and academia under one accounts, emergency accounts,
products and technical expertise to roof to develop practical, interoperable application management, and service
support and demonstrate security cybersecurity approaches that address accounts. These powerful accounts
platforms for the Privileged Account the real-world needs of complex provide elevated, often nonrestricted
Management for the Financial Services Information Technology (IT) systems. access to the underlying IT resources
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and technology, which is why attackers 6. Provides system command control. its product in capability demonstrations
or malicious insiders seek to gain access 7. Counters password obfuscation to the Financial Services community.
to them. Hence, it is critical to monitor, (hidden passwords). Following successful demonstrations,
audit, control, and manage privileged 8. Supports password management NIST will publish a description of the
account usage. Many organizations, (vaults, changes, storage). security platform and its performance
including financial sector companies, 9. Supports activity logging (textual characteristics sufficient to permit other
face challenges managing privileged and video). organizations to develop and deploy
accounts. To address these challenges, 10. Supports real time activity security platforms that meet the security
the National Cybersecurity Center of monitoring. objectives of the Privileged Account
Excellence (NCCoE) plans to 11. Includes support functions needed Management for the Financial Services
demonstrate a PAM capability that by the typical user. sector use case. These descriptions will
effectively protects, monitors, and 12. Supports privilege escalation be public information.
manages privileged account access. The management. Under the terms of the consortium
project addresses privileged account life 13. Supports forensic investigation CRADA, NIST will support
cycle management, authentication, data management. development of interfaces among
authorization, auditing, and access 14. Provides support for workflow participants’ products by providing IT
controls. management. infrastructure, laboratory facilities,
A detailed description of the 15. Enables emergency (break glass) office facilities, collaboration facilities,
Privileged Account Management is scenario support. and staff support to component
available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/ 16. Includes policy management
composition, security platform
projects/use-cases/privileged-account- support.
documentation, and demonstration
17. Supports single sign-on.
management. activities.
Requirements: Each responding 18. Permits system and privileged
account discovery. The dates of the demonstration of the
organization’s letter of interest should Privileged Account Management for the
Responding organizations need to
identify which security platform Financial Services sector capability will
understand and, in their letters of
component(s) or capability(ies) it is be announced on the NCCoE website at
interest, commit to provide:
offering. Letters of interest should not least two weeks in advance at http://
1. Access for all participants’ project
include company proprietary nccoe.nist.gov/. The expected outcome
teams to component interfaces and the
information, and all components and of the demonstration is to improve
organization’s experts necessary to make
capabilities must be commercially privileged account management across
functional connections among security
available. Components are listed in an entire Financial Services sector
platform components
section 3 of the Privileged Account 2. Support for development and enterprise. Participating organizations
Management for the Financial Services demonstration of the Privileged Account will gain from the knowledge that their
sector use case (for reference, please see Management for the Financial Services products are interoperable with other
the link in the PROCESS section above) sector use case in NCCoE facilities participants’ offerings.
and include, but are not limited to: which will be conducted in a manner For additional information on the
• Privileged account control consistent with the following standards NCCoE governance, business processes,
• Privileged account command filtering and guidance: FIPS 140–2, FIPS 199, and NCCoE operational structure, visit
(allow or deny specific comments, FIPS 200, FIPS 201, SP 800–53, and SP the NCCoE website http://
such as disk formatting) 800–63. nccoe.nist.gov/.
• Multifactor authentication capability Additional details about the
• Access logging/database system Kevin Kimball,
• Password management Privileged Account Management for the NIST Chief of Staff.
• Separation of duties management Financial Services sector use case are
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• Support least privileged policies available at: https://nccoe.nist.gov/
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• Password obfuscation (hiding projects/use-cases/privileged-account-
passwords from PAM users) management.
• Temporary accounts NIST cannot guarantee that all of the DEPARTMENT OF COMMERCE
• Log management (analytics, storage, products proposed by respondents will
alerting) be used in the demonstration. Each National Institute of Standards and
Each responding organization’s letter prospective participant will be expected Technology
of interest should identify how their to work collaboratively with NIST staff
and other project participants under the [Docket No.: 171108999–7999–01]
products address one or more of the
following desired solution terms of the consortium CRADA in the
National Cybersecurity Center of
characteristics in section 3 of the development of the Privileged Account
Excellence (NCCoE) Transport Layer
Privileged Account Management for the Management for the Financial Services
Security (TLS) Server Certificate
Financial Services sector use case (for sector capability. Prospective
Management Building Block
reference, please see the link in the participants’ contribution to the
PROCESS section above): collaborative effort will include AGENCY: National Institute of Standards
1. Is easy to use for both PAM system assistance in establishing the necessary and Technology, Department of
administrators and PAM system users. interface functionality, connection and Commerce.
2. Provides protection for data at rest set-up capabilities and procedures, ACTION: Notice.
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and data in transit. demonstration harnesses, environmental
3. Is complementary to existing access and safety conditions for use, integrated SUMMARY: The National Institute of
management. platform user instructions, and Standards and Technology (NIST)
4. Integrates with directories. demonstration plans and scripts invites organizations to provide
5. Provides account use control necessary to demonstrate the desired products and technical expertise to
(policy enforcement and decision capabilities. Each participant will train support and demonstrate security
making). NIST personnel, as necessary, to operate platforms for the Transport Layer
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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 | James Banoczi via email to [email protected]; by telephone 301-975-0200; or by mail to National Institute of Standards and Technology, NCCoE; 9700 Great Seneca Highway, Rockville, MD 20850. Additional details about the Financial Services sector program are available at https:// nccoe.nist.gov/projects/use-cases/privileged-account-management. | |
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