NIST Releases Draft Guidance for Cybersecurity Excellence
The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), a Commerce Department agency, has released a draft Baldrige Cybersecurity Excellence Builder, describing it as a self-assessment tool to help organizations better understand the effectiveness of their cybersecurity risk management efforts. NIST is requesting public comments on the draft document, which blends the best of two globally recognized and widely used NIST resources: the organizational performance evaluation strategies from the Baldrige Performance Excellence Program and the risk management mechanisms of the Cybersecurity Framework.