Demystifying NIST CSF A Guide to Cybersecurity

The National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework (NIST CSF) is a voluntary framework primarily intended for critical infrastructure organizations to manage and mitigate cybersecurity risk. It has been widely adopted by various sectors due to its flexibility and adaptability to different organizations, regardless of their size, industry, or cybersecurity maturity.

The NIST CSF is structured around five core functions, which provide a high-level, strategic view of the lifecycle of an organization’s management of cybersecurity risk. These five core functions are:

Identify: Develop an organizational understanding to manage cybersecurity risk to systems, assets, data, and capabilities. This step involves identifying what needs to be protected and understanding the business context, resources that support critical functions, and related cybersecurity risks, enabling an organization to focus and prioritize its efforts, consistent with its risk management strategy and business needs.

Protect: Implement appropriate safeguards to ensure delivery of critical infrastructure services. The Protect Function supports the ability to limit or contain the impact of a potential cybersecurity event. This includes measures such as access control, awareness training, data security, information protection processes and procedures, maintenance, and protective technology.

Detect: Develop and implement appropriate activities to identify the occurrence of a cybersecurity event. The Detect Function enables timely discovery of cybersecurity events, encompassing anomalies and events detection, security continuous monitoring, and detection processes.

Respond: Develop and implement appropriate activities to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity incident. The Respond Function supports the ability to contain the impact of a potential cybersecurity incident. This includes response planning, communications, analysis, mitigation, and improvements following an incident.

Recover: Develop and implement appropriate activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired due to a cybersecurity incident. The Recover Function supports timely recovery to normal operations to reduce the impact from a cybersecurity incident.

00:00:00 Introduction to Cybersecurity Importance
00:00:23 NIST CSF Overview
00:01:07 Identify Function
00:01:34 Protect Function
00:02:03 Detect Function
00:02:24 Respond Function
00:02:46 Recover Function
00:03:08 Additional Features of NIST CSF
00:03:39 Conclusion

[TheJoshCardinal]

very informative, been learning about NIST