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09-24-02 11:17 PM
http://csrc.ncsl.nist.gov/
This is the website for the National Institute of Standards and Technology here in the United States. The United States government has put together this website with the following mission in mind:
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"The Computer Security Division (CSD) - (893) is one of eight divisions within NIST's Information Technology Laboratory.
The mission of NIST's Computer Security Division is to improve information systems security by:
Raising awareness of IT risks, vulnerabilities and protection requirements, particularly for new and emerging technologies;
Researching, studying, and advising agencies of IT vulnerabilities and devising techniques for the cost-effective security and privacy of sensitive Federal systems;
Developing standards, metrics, tests and validation programs: to promote, measure, and validate security in systems and services, to educate consumers and
to establish minimum security requirements for Federal systems
Developing guidance to increase secure IT planning, implementation, management and operation."
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The government of the United States makes a lot of computer security recommendations and information avalable to the public on this page. Among those recommendations are security patches for your browser, anti-virus software information, and guidelines used by the government for their own systems.
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