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NIST Cybersecurity Framework

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

- [Instructor] The next information security framework we're going to look at is from NIST, which is the National Institute of Standards and Technologies. So again, NIST is always going to be US focused, and we're going to look at the CSF, which stands for Cyber Security Framework. So we'll talk a little bit about the overview and what the purpose of the Cyber Security Framework is, and they give us seven steps in order to adhere to the CSF. And then we're going to talk about gap analysis and how CSF leads us towards gap analysis and why it's important. All right, so let's get in depth here with Cyber Security Framework. And there are five desirable goals. So within an organization, we first of all want to be able to identify our assets, and once we identify our assets, we want to protect them. But we know that no proactive means is 100% guaranteed, so if there is a breach, we want to be able to detect those breaches. Of course, we want to be able to respond accordingly and limit the…

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