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The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 (French translation)

November 22, 2024
Author(s)
Cherilyn Pascoe, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization —

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 (German translation)

November 22, 2024
Author(s)
Cherilyn Pascoe, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization —

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 (Polish translation)

November 12, 2024
Author(s)
Cherilyn Pascoe, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization —

NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Quick-Start Guide for Using the CSF Tiers

October 21, 2024
Author(s)
Stephen Quinn, Cherilyn Pascoe, Matthew Barrett, Karen Scarfone, Gregory Witte
This Quick-Start Guide describes how to apply the CSF 2.0 Tiers. CSF Tiers can be applied to CSF Organizational Profiles to characterize the rigor of an organization's cybersecurity risk governance and management outcomes. This can help provide context on

National Online Informative References (OLIR) Program: Overview, Benefits, and Use

February 26, 2024
Author(s)
Nicole Keller, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone, Matthew Smith, Vincent Johnson
Information and communications technology (ICT) domains – such as cybersecurity, privacy, and Internet of Things (IoT) – have many requirements and recommendations made by national and international standards, guidelines, frameworks, and regulations. An

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0

February 26, 2024
Author(s)
Cherilyn Pascoe, Stephen Quinn, Karen Scarfone
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 provides guidance to industry, government agencies, and other organizations to manage cybersecurity risks. It offers a taxonomy of high-level cybersecurity outcomes that can be used by any organization —

Automated Secure Configuration Guidance from the macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP)

July 20, 2023
Author(s)
Mark Trapnell, Eric Trapnell, Murugiah Souppaya, Bob Gendler, Dan Brodjieski, Allen Golbig, Karen Scarfone, Blair Heiserman
The macOS Security Compliance Project (mSCP) provides resources that system administrators, security professionals, security policy authors, information security officers, and auditors can leverage to secure and assess macOS desktop and laptop system

Guidelines for Managing the Security of Mobile Devices in the Enterprise

May 17, 2023
Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Gema Howell, Karen Scarfone, Joshua Franklin, Vincent Sritapan
Mobile devices were initially personal consumer communication devices, but they are now permanent fixtures in enterprises and are used to access modern networks and systems to process sensitive data. This publication assists organizations in managing and

Hardware-Enabled Security: Enabling a Layered Approach to Platform Security for Cloud and Edge Computing Use Cases

May 4, 2022
Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Ryan Savino, Tim Knoll, Uttam Shetty, Mourad Cherfaoui, Raghu Yeluri, Don Banks, Akash Malhotra, Michael Jordan, Dimitrios Pendarakis, Peter Romness
In today's cloud data centers and edge computing, attack surfaces have shifted and, in some cases, significantly increased. At the same time, hacking has become industrialized, and most security control implementations are not coherent or consistent. The

Trusted Cloud: Security Practice Guide for VMware Hybrid Cloud Infrastructure as a Service (IaaS) Environments

April 20, 2022
Author(s)
Murugiah Souppaya, Michael Bartock, Karen Scarfone, Donna Dodson, Daniel Carroll, Gina Scinta, Hemma Prafullchandra, Harmeet Singh, Raghuram Yeluri, Tim Shea, Carlos Phoenix, Robert Masten, Paul Massis, Jason Malnar, Michael Dalton, Anthony Dukes, Brenda Swarts, Rajeev Ghandi, Laura Storey, Rocky Weber, Jeff Haskins
A cloud workload is an abstraction of the actual instance of a functional application that is virtualized or containerized to include compute, storage, and network resources. Organizations need to be able to monitor, track, apply, and enforce their