Earlier this year, the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) released version 2.0 of its Cybersecurity Framework or “CSF.” The NIST CSF has been pivotal in helping medium-sized organizations navigate the increasingly complex cybersecurity landscape. For those enterprises that are too large to be called “small” yet often struggle to find the budget and internal IT security resources available to large enterprises, the CSF offers a robust cyber defense mechanism for safeguarding any organization.

As a government agency within the U.S. Department of Commerce with over a century of history, NIST has been instrumental in the advancement of technology and cybersecurity standards for decades. Its contribution to cybersecurity, through the development of frameworks and guidelines since the early 2000s, helps organizations of all sizes to protect their information and infrastructure from digital threats.