The Situation Report: NIST Framework Mandatory? Open Source Rebellion at DHS?

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The New De Facto Voluntary Standard

My Gaithersburg, Md., listening post has picked up strong signals that there’s a new mandatory cybersecurity standard in town. The Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity, developed in 2014 by the National Institute of Standards and Technology in close cooperation with industry, has always been a voluntary guide for organizations of all types and sizes to apply common best practices in risk management.

But a low-key change has taken place that sources say has shifted the NIST CSF from a purely voluntary practice to a mandatory standard for Federal agencies. For the first time, the government has linked the Federal Information Security Modernization Act metrics to the CSF. In fact, the fiscal 2016 FISMA metrics leverage the NIST CSF as a standard for managing and reducing risk, and are organized around the CSF’s five major functions of identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.

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