Lauded as a successful and flexible Cybersecurity Framework, National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has been widely adopted by industries across both the private and public sector. Today, NIST will host a public webcast explaining the updates released by the US Commerce Department, NIST Version 1.1.
Since its inception, countless organizations have used the tool to manage their cyber risk, many of whom have shared their perspective on how NIST has enabled them to bring stakeholders together to manage risk. “According to Gartner, the framework is now used by 30% of US organizations and is projected to reach 50% by 2020,” said Nozomi Networks president and CEO Edgard Capdevielle.
Infrastructure giants from Bank of America, U.S. Bank and Pacific Gas and Electric, as well as Intel, Apple, AIG, QVC, Walgreens and Kaiser Permanente, are among those who have applied the existing framework. Countries across the globe from Italy to Israel and Uruguay have either adopted NIST or established their own version of the frameworks.
According to Capdevielle, “The updates to authentication and identity, self-assessing cybersecurity risk and management and…
