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Cyber

NIST Issues RFI For Voluntary Standards For Critical Infrastructures

Defense Daily Staff

Friday, March 1st, 2013

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The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) this week released a Request for Information (RFI) to solicit ideas for voluntary standards and best practices that owners and operators of critical infrastructures could use to protect their networks and computers from cyber attacks. The RFI will be used by NIST to help it develop a Cybersecurity Framework in the coming months that will provide the security standards and best practices that critical infrastructure owners can opt to adopt, or not.…

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