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Administration Plans RFI To Kick Start Cybersecurity Framework

Wednesday, February 20th, 2013

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) shortly will release a Request for Information (RFI) as part of a collaborative effort with industry and other stakeholders to identify existing security standards that could be voluntarily used by owners and operators of critical infrastructure to reduce risks to cyber threats. The RFI will kick start an iterative process that will include a series of workshops hosted by NIST during the next few months to develop the Cybersecurity Framework, which will…

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