NIST Releases Cyber Security Framework to Help Businesses Protect Their Data

To help organizations charged with providing the nation's financial, energy, health care and other critical systems better protect their information and physical assets from cyber attack, the Commerce Department's National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recently released the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cyber security. The framework provides a structure that organizations, regulators and customers can use to create, guide, assess or improve comprehensive cyber security programs.