All NIST articles
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ArticleProposed NIST cybersecurity guide incorporates HIPAA Security Rule
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on proposed guidance intended to help healthcare organizations that fall under the regulatory umbrella of the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act’s Security Rule.
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Webcast
Webcast: Importance of adopting a cybersecurity risk management framework
More and more commercial organizations are voluntarily adopting cybersecurity risk management frameworks like NIST CSF, COBIT, ISO, and others considering recent legislation, executive orders, and reporting requirements.
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Premium
Chapter 1, Part 1: Betsy’s human error triggers ransomware crisis
When one of fictional private utility company Vulnerable Electric’s most dedicated employees falls victim to a social engineering hack, her actions in the immediate aftermath are crucial to what will soon become a crisis for the C-suite.
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Article
TPRM 2021: What to do before, during, and after a ransomware attack
Two risk and compliance practitioners opened their cyber-playbooks at CW’s TPRM virtual event, explaining how to identify and address vulnerabilities, establish transparency with vendors, and strengthen an organization’s incident management program.
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Article
New NIST revisions expand scope of cyber supply chain risk management guidance
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking comment on a revised version of its cyber supply chain risk management guidance that is intended for a broader audience of public and private companies.
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Article
NIST guidance tackles how to integrate cyber-security with ERM
New guidance from NIST aims to demystify a process with which many companies across all industries have long struggled: how to seamlessly integrate cyber-security risk into an overall enterprise risk management program.
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Article
Report slams ‘woefully lax’ cyber-security controls at CIA
Cyber-security protections deployed for some of the nation’s most secret data was “woefully lax,” according to a 2017 intelligence brief that detailed shortcomings at the CIA following the agency’s 2016 data breach.
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Article
NIST seeks comment on ransomware, cyber-attack guidance
The National Institute of Standards and Technology is seeking input on a trio of draft guidance published in the past week. Two of the drafts address ransomware attacks, and the third addresses protecting against cyber-attacks in the supply chain.
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Article
Compliance 2020: A timeline
Compliance Week looks back at two decades of scandals, enforcement actions, and regulatory policies (2000-2019) that shaped the compliance function we see today.
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Article
FTC proposes five amendments to NIST Privacy Framework
The FTC has submitted comment on NIST’s draft Privacy Framework, praising the agency for its proposal to help firms open a privacy dialogue and suggesting five amendments to improve upon the draft.
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Article
NIST provides guidance on how to bridge privacy, cyber-security processes
NIST’s new draft Privacy Framework offers much-needed guidance to help companies align their data privacy and cyber-security risk management practices.
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Article
Understanding NIST’s new Risk Management Framework
NIST’s new Risk Management Framework—used with the agency’s Cybersecurity Framework—offers companies direction in integrating cyber-security, privacy, and supply-chain risk management.
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Article
Interpreting the new NIST Cybersecurity Framework
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published an update to its widely adopted Cybersecurity Framework, implementing significant revisions.
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Blog
NIST seeks comment on cyber-security framework update
A leading framework for addressing cyber-security is getting an update, and the National Institutes of Standards and Technology is looking for input. Tammy Whitehouse reports.
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Blog
CAQ: Audit’s role in cyber-security exams
Public company auditors are suggesting that companies voluntarily submit to an independent cyber-security examination separate from the existing financial statement audit. Tammy Whitehouse explores a new process for examining and reporting on a company’s cyber-security risk management.
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Article
How to Simplify Cyber-Security Controls Amid Abundant Laws
By now every compliance officer has already heard the warning that it’s a matter of when you suffer a cyber-security breach, not if. Then comes compliance with breach disclosure rules—and those demands are becoming as perplexing as the cyber-threat itself. Overwhelmed, compliance officers are seeking ways to navigate these demands ...
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Article
Eliminating Cyber-Threats From the IT Supply Chain
Image: The longer a global supply chain grows, the less assurance corporations have in the integrity and security of their products and operations. Now NIST is trying to pierce that fog with new guidance, and compliance officers in the private sector might want to take notice. “Cyber-supply chain risk management ...
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Article
Smarter Assessments of Cyber-Risk
Image: Every compliance and audit executive wants to manage cyber-security risks. That assumes, however, that the whole organization agrees on what a cyber-security risk is. Taxonomies do exist to build a more disciplined approach to cyber-security. Try to take all steps to manage all such risks, and “it’s going to ...
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Article
COSO Tacks Toward Cyber-Security
As cyber-security works its way onto the corporate board agenda, COSO is suggesting ways that its frameworks for internal control and risk management can be a starting point for companies to anticipate fast-emerging risks. “Just as the board is responsible for enterprise risk management, this is very similar,” says Mike ...
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Blog
Another Step Forward in Tackling Cyber-Security Risk
Image: Dec. 31—COSO’s Internal Control — Integrated Framework talks a good game about being useful beyond financial reporting risks, but Compliance Week Editor Matt Kelly has always wondered how that works in practice. Then came a nifty piece of guidance: a taxonomy of operational risks in cyber-security, published by the ...
