NIST Sees More Use of Cybersecurity Framework, Two Years After Release
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework has gained significant support among U.S. firms since its release two years ago, NIST said Thursday. Tech research firm Gartner estimated 30 percent of U.S. organizations now use the NIST framework…
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and about 50 percent of companies will use the framework by 2020, NIST said. The framework is “a merger of business sense and cyber-logic,” said NIST Computer Security Division Program Manager-Security Research and Integration Group Matt Barrett in a news release. NIST is collecting comment on the NIST framework through Feb. 23. Comments NIST has received thus far indicate that there isn’t major demand for a full update of the Cybersecurity Framework (see 1602180068).