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U.S. Releases Draft Cybersecurity Framework

By Rebekah Mintzer
November 02, 2013

The U.S. Department of Commerce's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released its draft of a voluntary cybersecurity framework on Oct. 22 that will allow both private and public companies that work with critical infrastructure to better evaluate cyber risk, and prepare better defenses against ever-increasing online attacks.

NIST's “Preliminary Cybersecurity Framework,” to be finalized in February 2014 after a period for public comment, originated with an executive order from President Barack Obama, which identified cyber threats to critical infrastructure as “one of the most serious national security challenges” and directed NIST to produce the framework document. See, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity,” Executive Order 13636 (Feb. 12, 2013). The new framework sets out specific steps and best practices for organizations ' small and large, public and private ' to follow in order to better protect the country's critical infrastructure.

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