The National Institute of Standards and Technology announced Friday that a draft Special Publication 800-126, The Technical Specification for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), has been ...

Researchers at the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) have released for public comment updated specifications for the Security Content Automation Protocol (SCAP), which helps ...

The integration of government's Security Content Automation Protocols with TCG's Trusted Network Connect could add automated policy enforcement to scanning and evaluation of security status. NIST ...

Bringing order and security to the patchwork quilt of computing environments in a large organization can be a daunting task. Software tools and technical specifications that allow security information ...

It's increasingly difficult to keep up with all the vulnerabilities present in today's highly complex operating systems and applications. Attackers constantly search for and exploit these ...

What it does: The Security Content Automation Protocol provides a standardized way of managing security. Uses include verifying installation of software patches and checking a machine’s security ...

SCAP is a suite of standards and a body of content developed by NIST, MITRE, and various other organizations. SCAP is aimed at improving the ability for automated programs to generate, exchange, and ...

DevOps vendor Chef announced on Feb. 20 the latest edition of its open-source InSpec compliance tool in an effort to accelerate and enable a DevSecOps approach to IT security. The emerging discipline ...