The National Institute of Standards and Technologies plans to soon release new updates to some of its publications, including its Cybersecurity Framework, to reflect new IT modernization priorities.
Ron Ross, the computer scientist behind the NIST Federal Information Security Management (FISMA) implementation, claims the three primary goals are to simplify, innovate, and automate.
The key area where the framework will provide new advice is about supply chain risks, identity management, and cybersecurity risk assessment and measurement. NIST’s second draft framework was released last December, but it’s currently reviewing public comments and will release the final version Spring 2018.
NIST has been working on revision five of the Security and Privacy Controls for Federal Information Systems and Organizations for quite some time now. The newest version will include integrating privacy and security controls in one unified catalog to help simplify the process.
In an effort to connect the C-suite to system owners, NIST is looking to integrate the cybersecurity framework into the risk management framework 2.0. The idea behind this is to get the C-suite to buy into the problem space by explaining the impact on the business if the system is breached.
The new version of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework will include simple descriptions and definition for identifying all stakeholders and associated cyber risks in an organizational supply chain.
Risk assessment is an area that’s expected to include fresh insight. This section will include a revised section on measuring and demonstrating cyber security effectiveness, including a section of self-assessing cyber risk, and a section on how organizations can identify, measure, and manage cyber risks to support broader business goals.
NIST also plans to publish its second version of its systems security engineering publication, 800-160, on March 21, 2018. This revised version will focus on cyber resiliency recommendations for the engineering of trustworthy secure systems, taking into account the basic notion that you can’t always stop the breach, but you can at least spot the breach.
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