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Frameworks

NIST's frameworks help organizations of all kinds meet their goals around cybersecurity and other common challenges by providing guidance on activities and outcomes. 

  • The NIST Cybersecurity Framework helps organizations to better understand and improve their management of cybersecurity risk.
  • The NIST Risk Management Framework provides a process that integrates security, privacy, and cyber supply chain risk management activities into the system development life cycle. 
  • The NIST Privacy Framework is a voluntary tool developed in collaboration with stakeholders intended to help organizations identify and manage privacy risk to build innovative products and services while protecting individuals’ privacy.
  • The NIST AI Risk Management Framework is intended for voluntary use and to improve the ability to incorporate trustworthiness considerations into the design, development, use, and evaluation of AI products, services, and systems.
  • The NICE Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity establishes a standard approach and common language for describing cybersecurity work and learner capabilities.

News

NIST Drafts Major Update to Its Widely Used Cybersecurity Framework

NIST has revised the framework to help benefit all sectors, not just critical infrastructure.

NIST Leaders Overview CPS and IoT Program at DOE Executive Lunch and Learn

NIST Leads U.S. Delegation to Singapore World Cities Summit

Hawaii MEP Tours the CTL Operational Technology Cybersecurity Laboratory