Date Published: August 2017
Comments Due: August 25, 2017 (public comment period is CLOSED)
Email Questions to: NISTIR8176@nist.gov
NIST requests comments on the release of Draft NISTIR 8176, Security Assurance Requirements for Linux Application Container Deployments.
Application Containers are slowly finding adoption in enterprise IT infrastructures. To address security concerns associated with deployment of application container platforms, NIST Special Publication 800-190 (2nd Draft), Application Container Security Guide, identified security threats to the components of the platform hosting the containers and related artifacts involved in building, storing and using container images. It has also proposed countermeasures for the following components: Hardware, Host OS, Container Runtime, Image, Registry and Orchestrator.
To implement the countermeasures one or more security solutions are needed. To assess the effectiveness of the security solutions implemented based on these recommendations, it is necessary to analyze them and outline the security assurance requirements they must satisfy to meet their intended objectives. This is the contribution of Draft NISTIR 8176. The focus is on application containers on Linux platforms.
The security solutions for which security assurance requirements have been derived cover the following areas:
Access Control; Configuration Management; System and Communications Protection; System and Information Integrity
Publication:
Draft NISTIR 8176
Supplemental Material:
None available
Related NIST Publications:
Document History:
08/01/17: NISTIR 8176 (Draft)
10/11/17: NISTIR 8176 (Final)
Security and Privacy
assurance; configuration management; security automation; threats; vulnerability management
Technologies
cloud & virtualization
Laws and Regulations
Cybersecurity Strategy and Implementation Plan; Federal Information Security Modernization Act; OMB Circular A-130