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To protect your network, your customers, and your data, your organization needs cybersecurity guidance, solutions, and training that are practical, actionable, and enables you to cost-effectively address and manage your cybersecurity risks.

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 is voluntary guidance, based on existing standards, guidelines, and practices for organizations to better manage and reduce cybersecurity risk.

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Introducing NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) has released the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0. The 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 — regardless of its size, sector, or maturity — to better understand, assess, prioritize, and communicate its cybersecurity efforts. The CSF does not prescribe how outcomes should be achieved. Rather, it links to online resources that provide additional guidance on practices and controls that could be used to achieve those outcomes. The CSF 2.0 document describes CSF 2.0, its components, and some of the many ways that it can be used. Check out the CSF 2.0 website for quick start guides, CSF 2.0 profiles, and more!

New Guidance on Hacking of U.S. Critical Infrastructure

U.S. and international government agencies published on February 8 a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on malicious activity by a People’s Republic of China (PRC) state-sponsored cyber actor, known as Volt Typhoon, to compromise critical infrastructure and associated actions that should be urgently undertaken by all organizations. In addition to the joint Cybersecurity Advisory, CISA and our partners also released complementary Joint Guidance to help all organizations effectively hunt for and detect the sophisticated types of techniques used by actors such as Volt Typhoon, known as “living off the land.” 

More Cybersecurity Resources

This guide is meant to provide organizations with proactive steps to reduce the likelihood and impact of distributed denial-of-service (DDoS) attacks. These attacks can cost an organization time and money and may impose reputational costs while resources and services are inaccessible

The Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) provide voluntary guidance to critical infrastructure partners to help them prioritize security investments toward areas that will have the greatest impact on their cybersecurity. This checklist is to be used in tandem with the CPGs to help prioritize and track your organization's implementation.

This living repository includes cybersecurity services provided by CISA, widely used open source tools, and free tools and services offered by private and public sector organizations across the cybersecurity community.

Cybersecurity basics, guidance, solutions, and training to protect your information and manage your cybersecurity risks.

An action-oriented guide for leaders of small businesses on where to start implementing organizational cybersecurity practices.

This series of practices are exceptionally risky, especially in organizations supporting critical infrastructure. The presence of these Bad Practices is exceptionally dangerous and increases risk to our critical infrastructure, on which we rely for national security, economic stability, and life, health, and safety of the public.

The Cyber Resilience Review is a no-cost, voluntary, non-technical assessment to evaluate an organization’s operational resilience and cybersecurity practices.