The framework’s core is made up of six essential functions:
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Identify – Understand what needs protection, such as systems, people, assets, data, and capabilities. Create a cybersecurity policy.
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Protect – Develop and implement safeguards to ensure critical services are not disrupted. Control who has access to your network and devices, and use security software.
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Detect – Implement strategies to identify possible cybersecurity events. Monitor your network for unauthorized access, devices, and software.
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Respond – Develop and implement activities to take action regarding a detected cybersecurity incident. Have a plan for notifying customers and employees, and keeping business operations running.
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Recover – Develop and implement activities to maintain plans for resilience and to restore any capabilities or services that were impaired.
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Govern – The organisation’s cybersecurity risk management strategy, expectations, and policy are established, communicated, and monitored.
How can we help?
Based on your requirements we can provide the right support to help you achieve NIST CSF compliance, including:
Gap Analysis
If you are looking to assess and measure your current compliance to the NIST Cyber Security Framework, we can assist by delivering a NIST CSF gap analysis.
This is often the first step in any NIST CSF project and provides a roadmap for NIST CSF compliance. This NIST consultancy service typically involves one of Security Consultants spending time on site with the key individuals responsible for the NIST CSF implementation programme, e.g., those involved in network administration and IT systems, as well as those involved in developing policies and processes/procedures.
Implementation Support
Having conducted a gap analysis and identified any areas where improvements are required, we can assist with any implementation or remediation activities to ensure you achieve and maintain compliance in the most practical and effective manner.
Penetration Testing and Vulnerability Scanning
A key requirements of NIST CSF is the need to undertake both vulnerability scanning and penetration testing in order to assess the network infrastructure and applications for security vulnerabilities.
Cyber Security Specialists can help you to implement a Vulnerability Management program utilising market leading technologies, or provide you with our managed vulnerability scanning service, where we provide the technology platform and provide full support from our team of experts.
As a CREST-accredited organisation, Cyber Security Specialists can also conduct penetration tests, where our team of testers will not only analyse your network environment, cloud services, or web applications but also try to exploit those vulnerabilities as a real-world adversary would.
Our Security Consultants are all vendor agnostic and come with a wide range of technical and information security (e.g. ISO 27001) skills and experience and are well placed to understand the impact that the implementation of the NIST Cyber Security Framework is likely to have on your organisation.
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