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National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)

Cybersecurity framework planning and risk management

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a U.S. government agency that develops standards, guidelines, frameworks, and best practices to help organizations improve cybersecurity, privacy, risk management, and technology security. NIST cybersecurity frameworks and standards are widely used by businesses, government organizations, technology companies, financial institutions, healthcare providers, and security professionals to identify cyber risks, strengthen security controls, and improve organizational resilience.

What Is the National Institute of Standards and Technology?

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is an agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce. Its work covers cybersecurity, privacy, artificial intelligence, cryptography, digital identity, information security, and other technology and measurement disciplines. NIST develops practical guidance that organizations can use to manage technology risks and establish consistent security practices. One of its best-known resources is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF), which provides a flexible approach for managing cybersecurity risk.

Why Is NIST Important for Cybersecurity?

Modern organizations face ransomware, phishing, credential theft, software vulnerabilities, insider threats, supply-chain attacks, and data breaches. NIST guidance helps organizations develop structured cybersecurity programs by providing best practices, risk-management guidance, security controls, privacy recommendations, incident-response guidance, vulnerability-management practices, identity and access principles, assessment methodologies, and governance guidance.

Cybersecurity best practices
Risk management guidance
Security controls
Privacy protection recommendations
Incident-response guidance
Vulnerability management practices
Identity and access management principles
Security assessment methodologies
Cybersecurity governance guidance

NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF 2.0)

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides a common language for understanding and managing cybersecurity risk. NIST CSF 2.0 organizes cybersecurity activities around six core functions.

1. Govern: Establish and oversee cybersecurity strategy, policies, roles, responsibilities, and risk management, aligning security activities with business objectives.
2. Identify: Understand assets, systems, data, suppliers, business context, and cybersecurity risks through asset management, risk assessment, and supply-chain analysis.
3. Protect: Implement safeguards such as identity and access management, awareness training, data security, platform security, protective technology, and secure configuration.
4. Detect: Identify potential cybersecurity events quickly through security monitoring, anomaly detection, continuous logging, and threat detection.
5. Respond: Take action after an incident through analysis, containment, communication, mitigation, and response planning.
6. Recover: Restore affected systems and improve resilience through system restoration, recovery planning, communication, and lessons learned.

NIST Risk Management Framework

The NIST Risk Management Framework (RMF) provides a structured approach for managing security and privacy risks associated with information systems. It supports preparing the organization, categorizing systems, selecting security and privacy controls, implementing controls, assessing controls, authorizing systems, and continuously monitoring security. The RMF helps integrate security and privacy throughout the system lifecycle.

NIST Security Controls

NIST publishes security and privacy control guidance that organizations can use to establish and assess appropriate safeguards. NIST SP 800-53 is a major publication providing a catalog of security and privacy controls for information systems and organizations.