NIST issues trio of reports for comment on ‘hardware-enabled security and trusted cloud’

The National Institute of Standards and Technology has opened a public comment period through Dec. 6 on three draft publications addressing several aspects of cloud security, examining “techniques and technologies” and providing users with a practice guide.

“The foundation of any cloud data center or edge computing security strategy should be securing the platform on which data and workloads will be executed and accessed. The physical platform provides the initial protections to help ensure that higher-layer security controls can be...