NIST CSF 2.0: A CISO's Guide
Security Boulevard, Wednesday, October 9th, 2024
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) has become one of the most widely adopted standards for organizations seeking to enhance their cybersecurity posture and inform their cybersecurity control requirements.
It provides a level of business abstraction into non-technical terms that other standards have been missing. This makes it easy to describe what the controls in each function are intended to do in non-technical terms: Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Recently, NIST released the 2.0 version of the framework.
In this blog, I highlight the key changes from NIST CSF 1.0 and the implication of these changes based on how CISOs generally use NIST CSF. Most importantly, I encourage CISOs to consider the usage of NIST CSF as intended by the framework's creators.