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D-Index
43
Citations
12898
World Ranking
7782
National Ranking
3365

Overview

Karen A. Scarfone is affiliated with the National Institute of Standards and Technology in the United States. Their work is primarily situated within this federal research organization, which focuses on advancing measurement science, standards, and technology.

There are no recent papers, frequent co-authors, publication venues, book publications, main fields or subfields of study, or main topics of work listed for this scientist at this time. Similarly, there are no awards or honors recorded in the available data.

This lack of bibliographic and publication information suggests a profile that is either early-career, behind restricted-access research, or oriented towards non-published contributions within their institution. Their position at a prominent national standards institute may imply involvement in applied research, policy development, or technical standardization efforts rather than traditional academic publishing.

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Best Publications

  • Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security

    Keith A. Stouffer;Joseph A. Falco;Karen A. Scarfone

  • Guide to Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS)

    Karen A. Scarfone;Peter M. Mell

  • Blockchain Technology Overview

    Dylan J. Yaga;Peter M. Mell;Nik Roby;Karen Scarfone

  • Guide to Attribute Based Access Control (ABAC) Definition and Considerations

    Vincent Hu;David Ferraiolo;Richard Kuhn;Adam Schnitzer

  • Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    P. Mell;K. Scarfone;S. Romanosky

  • Technical Guide to Information Security Testing and Assessment

    Karen Scarfone;Murugiah Souppaya;Amanda Cody;Angela Orebaugh

  • Computer Security Incident Handling Guide

    Paul R. Cichonski;Thomas Millar;Timothy Grance;Karen Scarfone

  • Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

    Erika McCallister;Timothy Grance;Karen A. Scarfone

  • A Complete Guide to the Common Vulnerability Scoring System Version 2.0 | NIST

    Peter M. Mell;Karen A. Scarfone;Sasha Romanosky

  • An analysis of CVSS version 2 vulnerability scoring

    Karen Scarfone;Peter Mell

  • Guide to Intrusion Detection and Prevention Systems (IDPS): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology

    Karen Scarfone;Peter Mell

  • Guide to Bluetooth Security

    John Padgette;John Bahr;Mayank Batra;Marcel Holtmann

  • Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) Systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and Other Control System Configurations Such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC): Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology, Final Public Draft

    Joe Falco;Karen Scarfone;Keith Stouffer

  • SP 800-82. Guide to Industrial Control Systems (ICS) Security: Supervisory Control and Data Acquisition (SCADA) systems, Distributed Control Systems (DCS), and other control system configurations such as Programmable Logic Controllers (PLC)

    Keith A. Stouffer;Joseph A. Falco;Karen A. Scarfone

  • Guide to Security for Full Virtualization Technologies

    Karen Scarfone;Murugiah Souppaya;Paul Hoffman

  • Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

    Murugiah P. Souppaya;Karen A. Scarfone

  • Guide to Secure Web Services

    Anoop Singhal;Theodore Winograd;Karen Scarfone

  • Considerations for Managing Internet of Things (IoT) Cybersecurity and Privacy Risks

    Kaitlin R. Boeckl;Michael J. Fagan;William J. Fisher;Naomi B. Lefkovitz

  • The Common Vulnerability Scoring System (CVSS) and its Applicability to Federal Agency Systems

    Peter M. Mell;Karen A. Scarfone;Sasha Romanosky

  • Improving the Common Vulnerability Scoring System

    Peter M. Mell;Karen A. Scarfone

  • SP 800-122. Guide to Protecting the Confidentiality of Personally Identifiable Information (PII)

    Erika McCallister;Timothy Grance;Karen A. Scarfone

  • Guide to Bluetooth Security: Recommendations of the National Institute of Standards and Technology (Special Publication 800-121 Revision 1)

    John Padgette;Karen Scarfone;Lily Chen

  • Guidelines on Firewalls and Firewall Policy | NIST

    Karen A. Scarfone;Paul Hoffman

Frequent Co-Authors

Jeffrey Voas
Jeffrey Voas National Institute of Standards and Technology
D. Richard Kuhn
D. Richard Kuhn National Institute of Standards and Technology

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