The U.S. federal government has been very active the past year, particularly with the cybersecurity executive order (EO) and associated tasks and goals that have come out of it. One framework and industry source that has been getting increased attention is the NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF).

The CSF came out of another EO, 13636, which is from 2013 and directed NIST to work with stakeholders to develop a voluntary framework for reducing risk to critical infrastructure. It was produced through coordinated efforts with industry and government, which have both widely adopted the framework.

Here’s how the CSF is composed, how aspects of it can help meet some of the recent cybersecurity EO objectives, and how any organization can use it to better map risk to threats.

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