U.S. flag   An unofficial archive of your favorite United States government website
Dot gov

Official websites do not use .rip
We are an unofficial archive, replace .rip by .gov in the URL to access the official website. Access our document index here.

Https

We are building a provable archive!
A lock (Dot gov) or https:// don't prove our archive is authentic, only that you securely accessed it. Note that we are working to fix that :)

Updates 2014

Special Publication 800-147B, BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers
September 03, 2014

NIST announces the release of NIST Special Publication 800-147B, BIOS Protection Guidelines for Servers. This guide is intended to mitigate threats to the integrity of fundamental system firmware, commonly known as the Basic Input/Output System (BIOS), in server-class systems. This guide identifies security requirements and guidelines for a secure BIOS update process, using digital signatures to authenticate updates. The intended audience for this document includes BIOS and platform vendors of server-class systems, and information system security professionals who are responsible for procuring, deploying, and managing servers. 
 
This document is the second in a series of publications on BIOS protections. The first document, SP800-147, BIOS Protection Guidelines, was released in April 2011 and provides guidelines for desktop and laptop systems deployed in enterprise environments.

 

Created December 21, 2016, Updated June 22, 2020