NIST Features

Components

The Cybersecurity Framework consists of three main components:

• NIST: Framework Core
• NIST: Implementation Tiers
• NIST: Profiles

• https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/online-learning/components-framework

Five Functions

Five functions of the Framework Core are:

• NIST: Identify
  • What processes and assets need protection
• NIST: Protect
  • Implement appropriate safeguards to ensure protection of the enterprise's assets.
• NIST: Detect
  • Implement appropriate mechanism to identify the occurrence of cybersecurity incidents
• NIST: Respond
  • Develop techniques to contain the impacts of cybersecurity events
• NIST: Recover
  • Implement the appropriate processes to restore capabilities and services impaired due to cybersecurity events.

• https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework/online-learning/five-functions