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Navigating NIST's CSF 2.0 Quick Start Guides

Resource and Overview Guide

Understand the basics and learn about the many available helpful CSF 2.0 resources

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The below targeted guides will help you with specific topics.

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

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CSF 2.0 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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C-SCRM
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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Created December 8, 2023, Updated February 26, 2024