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Read SIGNAL Magazine’s Article on How NSA’s Information Assurance Experts Are Helping to Improve Network Security with SCAP

Check out this month’s edition of SIGNAL Magazine, featuring a cover story about information security and an interview with Tony Sager, Chief of the Information Assurance Directorate’s Vulnerability Analysis and Operations Group. The article, “Security Comes Standard: Identifying Vulnerabilities May be as Simple as Speaking the Same Language,” describes how NSA’s Information Assurance experts are helping to improve network security with the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), which automates security tasks such as vulnerability identification, configuration management, and compliance. Read the full article in the August 2010 SIGNAL Magazine.

IAD Announces New Suite B Guide

NSA's Cryptographic Research Organization announces the publication of the Suite B Implementers' Guide to FIPS 186-3 (ECDSA)

The Suite B strategy, also known as the Cryptographic Interoperability Strategy (CIS), provides industry with a set of cryptographic algorithms they can use to promote cryptographic protocol and algorithm interoperability and to create products meeting a range of U.S. Government needs. For more information on Suite B and to access the Suite B Implementers' Guide to FIPS 186-3 (ECDSA), visit the IA Suite B page.