[98260] in North American Network Operators' Group
NIST Bulletins and publications
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Lynda)
Fri Jul 27 08:41:13 2007
Date: Fri, 27 Jul 2007 05:39:04 -0700
From: Lynda <shrdlu@deaddrop.org>
To: Nanog <nanog@nanog.org>
Errors-To: owner-nanog@merit.edu
I read a lot of mailing lists. Some of them are actually just
collections of others, which mercifully allows me to reduce the traffic
oh, so slightly. On one of them, InfoSec News, I see bulletins coming in
from NIST (National Institute of Standards and Technology), and they're
always comprised of reasonable, yet wordy, documents. This month is
especially interesting. "ITL Bulletin for July 2007: Border Gateway
Protocol Security (all caps removed to protect the innocent)."
I wonder how many here actually read these things, or find them useful.
I read the announcement, and have glanced briefly at the PDF it points
to, and find it generally useful. Nice guidelines, sensible stuff all,
and probably of great help if this is all new to you (perhaps helpful
even if you've been around a while). For those overwhelmed with too much
work and too little time, there's even an Executive Summary with actual
useful information in it.
http://www.infosecnews.org/hypermail/0707/13525.html
http://csrc.nist.gov/publications/nistpubs/800-54/SP800-54.pdf
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Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it,
and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous
resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their
ignorance the hard way. --Bokonen
