Auditing IT Infrastructures for Compliance, 3rd Edition
by Robert Johnson, Marty Weiss, Michael G. Solomon
Cybersecurity Framework
In 2014, NIST released the first version of what is known as the Cybersecurity Framework. This framework is a result of President Barak Obama’s Executive Order 13636, “Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity,” issued in 2013. The development of the framework is a result of collaboration between both government and private-sector participants, given the vested interests and associated stakeholders. The current version is NIST 800-53, Revision 5, which was published on September 23, 2020.
The purpose of the Cybersecurity Framework is to provide a voluntary structure for reducing the risks to critical infrastructure. The first version considers various other standards and best practices, and “provides a common language ...
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