The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division has released three new draft guides for agencies on buying security technologies and services. . .
The National Institute of Standards and Technology's Computer Security Division has released three new draft guides for agencies on buying security technologies and services.

The three draft guides, released Oct. 9, approach security acquisition from different directions. All of them are necessary to ensure security when implementing an information technology network or solution. The guides are available on NIST's Computer Security Resource Center site (https://csrc.nist.gov/). Comments are due back by Nov. 11.

The first, "Special Publication 800-36: Guide to Selecting IT Security Products," looks at hardware and software specifically for security needs, such as identification and authentication, intrusion detection, virus and malicious code protection, and forensics.

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