The OpenFISMA project is an open source application designed to reduce the complexity and automate the regulatory requirements of the Federal Information Security Management Act (FISMA) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Risk Management Framework (RMF). OpenFISMA is built on a modern, standardized platform called Zend Framework, which is an open source, […]
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OpenSCAP – Framework For Implementing SCAP (Security Content Automation Protocol)
[ad] The OpenSCAP Project was created to provide an open-source framework to the community which enables integration with the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP) suite of standards and capabilities. It is the goal of OpenSCAP to provide a simple, easy to use set of interfaces to serve as the framework for community use of SCAP […]
SHA-1 Cracked – Old News, But People Still Talk
[ad] A paper about cracking SHA-1 originally surfaced in 2005, from a fairly reputable scientific source in China, it was widely publicised nor talked about much. But then recently, just last month China managed to make a wave out of it, almost 2 years after the initial ‘report’. It was even Slashdotted on January 20th […]