NIST CYBERSECURITY FRAMEWORK 1.1

NIST CYBERSECURITY FRAMEWORK 1.1

INTRODUCTION

The Framework 1.1  offers an agile way to address cybersecurity, including cybersecurity’s effect on physical, cyber, and people dimensions. It applies to organisations relying on technology, whether their cybersecurity focus is primarily on Information Technology (IT), Industrial Control Systems (ICS), Cyber-Physical Systems (CPS), or connected devices more generally, including the Internet of Things (IoT). The Framework 1.1 can enhance the organisations in addressing cybersecurity as affects the privacy of other data. Additionally, the Framework’s 1.1 outcomes serve as targets for workforce development and evolution activities.

The Framework 1.1 is not a one-size-fits-all method to manage cybersecurity risk for critical infrastructure. Organizations will continue to have static risks with different threats and vulnerabilities, and also with risk tolerances. They also will vary in how they customise practices described in the Framework 1.1. Organizations can determine activities that are important to critical service delivery and can prioritise investments to maximise the impact of each dollar spent. The Framework 1.1 is aiming to reduce the risk and better managing cybersecurity threats.

The Framework 1.1 is a living document and will continue to be updated and improved as the industry responds to implementation. NIST will continue coordinating with the private sector and government agencies at all levels. As the Framework 1.1 is placed into higher practice, additional lessons learned will be integrated into future versions. It will ensure the Framework 1.1 which meets the needs of infrastructure owners and operators in a critical environment of new threats and also the solutions.

USAGE OF FRAMEWORK 1.1

An organisation can use the Framework 1.1 as a critical part of its systematic process for identifying, assessing, and managing cybersecurity risk. The Framework is not used to replace existing methods, but companies can use its current method, and that can overlap it onto the Framework 1.1 to determine loopholes in its current cybersecurity risk approach. The Framework 1.1 can be used as a cybersecurity risk management tool; an organisation can identify activities that are most central to critical service delivery and prioritise expenditures to maximise the impact of the investment.

It is designed to complement cybersecurity operations. It can serve as the foundation for a new cybersecurity program or a mechanism for improving an existing application. The Framework  1.1 provides a means of articulating cybersecurity requirements to business partners and customers and can help identify gaps in an organisation’s cybersecurity practices.

The Framework 1.1 can be applied throughout the lifecycle phases of the plan, design, build/buy, deploy, operate, and decommission. The planning phase begins the cycle of any system and lays the groundwork for everything that follows. Overarching cybersecurity considerations should be declared and described as clearly as possible. The plan should be recognized that those requirements are to evolve during the remainder of the life cycle.

CYBERSECURITY USAGE FRAMEWORK 1.1

CONCLUSION

The Cybersecurity Framework 1.1 is intended to reduce risk by improving the management of cyber security risk to organisational objectives. Ideally, organisations using the Framework 1.1 will be able to measure and assign values to their risk along with the cost and benefits of steps taken to decrease risk to proper levels. The better an organisation can estimate its risk, costs, and advantages of cybersecurity strategies and actions, the more rational, useful, and valuable its cybersecurity approach and investments will be.

Over time, self-assessment and measurement should improve decision making about investment priorities. For example, measuring – or at least robustly characterising – aspects of an organisation’s cybersecurity state and trends over time can enable that organisation to understand and convey meaningful risk information to dependents, suppliers, buyers, and other parties. An organisation can accomplish this internally or by seeking a third-party assessment. If done correctly and with an appreciation of limitations, these measurements can provide a basis for healthy trusted relationships, both inside and outside of an organisation.

REFERENCE:

https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework

https://www.us-cert.gov/ccubedvp/cybersecurity-framework

AUTHOR

Dharmesh B

Security Engineer

Briskinfosec Technology and Consulting Pvt Ltd.,

https://www.linkedin.com/in/dharmeshbaskaran/