NIST Cybersecurity Framework
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NIST comes in many flavors, including NIST-CSF and the NIST Special Publications, such as NIST 800-53 and NIST 800-171.
Any organization, regardless of sector or size, can use the Cybersecurity Framework to better manage and reduce cybersecurity risks by customizing practices and determining activities that are important to critical service delivery.
How to implement NIST Cybersecurity Framework
After familiarizing yourself with the framework, assess the current state of your organization before establishing a cross-functional team to own the process.
From there, you’ll want to identify and prioritize assets, perform a risk assessment, determine the desired target state for cybersecurity maturity based on the NIST framework, and develop a roadmap to get there. Next, implement security controls and measures and develop and implement an incident response plan.
Throughout this process, you’ll want to provide cybersecurity training to employees, implement continuous monitoring mechanisms, document all cybersecurity policies, procedures, and practices, and establish a reporting mechanism to communicate cybersecurity status, incidents, and improvements to all relevant stakeholders.
The Five Elements of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework
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Identify
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Protect
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Detect
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Respond
5
Recover
Benefits Of adopting the NIST Cybersecurity framework
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a holistic and practical approach to cybersecurity risk management, helping organizations enhance their resilience to cyber threats & adapt to the ever-evolving cybersecurity landscape.
Additional benefits of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework include:
- An adaptable framework that can be tailored to the specific needs, priorities, and risk profiles of your individual organization.
- The establishment of a common language for communicating & managing cybersecurity-related activities across different departments & organizational levels.
- Enhanced visibility into your organization’s cybersecurity posture.
- Improved incident response.
- Better supply chain security.
- More efficient resource allocation.
- And more!
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FAQ
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework is governed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology, or NIST, a government-funded agency under the Department of Commerce. It’s the US Government’s take on data protection and cybersecurity best practices taken from other frameworks.
NIST is required of any organization that does business with the US government and many state agencies.
The NIST cybersecurity framework consists of three main components: the Framework Core, Implementation Tiers, and Profiles.
The Framework Core is a set of desired cybersecurity activities & outcomes. It consists of five concurrent and continuous Functions—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover—which provide a high-level, strategic view of the lifecycle of an organization’s management of cybersecurity risk.
Tiers describe the degree to which a company’s cybersecurity risk management practices exhibit the characteristics defined in the Framework Core, from Partial (Tier 1) to Adaptive (Tier 4), or informal and reactive responses, to agile and risk-informed ones.
Profiles are a company’s unique alignment of their requirements & objectives, risk appetite, and resources against the desired outcomes of the Framework Core. Profiles can be used to identify opportunities for improving a company’s cybersecurity posture.
