Cybersecurity Snapshot: NIST Aligns Its Privacy and Cyber Frameworks, While Researchers Warn About Hallucination Risks from GenAI Code Generators
Security Boulevard, Friday, April 18th, 2025
Check out NIST's effort to further mesh its privacy and cyber frameworks. Plus, learn why code-writing GenAI tools can put developers at risk of package-confusion attacks.
Also, find out what Tenable webinar attendees said about identity security. And get the latest on the MITRE CVE program and on attacks against edge routers.
Dive into five things that are top of mind for the week ending April 18.
NIST updates Privacy Framework, tailoring it to the Cybersecurity Framework and adding an AI section
Recognizing the data protection and cyberattack prevention overlap and are deeply intertwined, the U.S. government is aligning two foundational privacy and cybersecurity frameworks.
This week, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released a draft update of its Privacy Framework (PFW) that more closely interconnects it with the popular Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), which was updated in 2024.