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Cybersecurity Framework

CSF 2.0 Quick Start Guides

Available Guides:

CSF 2.0 Overview
Organizational Profiles
Community Profiles
Small Business
Cybersecurity SCRM
Tiers
Enterprise Risk Management
Cybersecurity, ERM and Workforce Management
Informative References

Resource and Overview Guide
Understand the basics and learn about the many available helpful CSF 2.0 resources.

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Organizational Profiles
Guidance for organizations, with considerations for creating and using spreadsheets called Profiles, to implement the CSF 2.0.

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Community Profiles
This guide provides considerations for creating and using Community Profiles to implement the CSF 2.0 and support the needs of organizations in communities that share common priorities.

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Small Business

Resources specifically tailored to small businesses with modest or no cybersecurity plans currently in place.

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Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management
Helps organizations become smarter acquirers and suppliers of technology products and services.

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Tiers
Organizations can use these to apply the CSF 2.0 Tiers to Profiles to characterize the rigor of their cybersecurity risk governance and management outcomes.

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Enterprise Risk Management
How ERM practitioners can utilize the outcomes provided in the CSF 2.0 to improve organizational cybersecurity risk management.

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Cybersecurity, ERM and Workforce Management
Shows how the Workforce Framework for Cybersecurity (NICE Framework) and the CSF 2.0 can be used together to address cybersecurity risk.

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Informative References
This QSG explains what informative references are, how they support achieving the outcomes of the CSF 2.0, and available NIST tools for accessing, viewing, and using informative references.

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Created December 8, 2023, Updated March 23, 2026

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