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NIST CSF

A flexible risk-management framework organized around six core functions.

Overview

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) organizes security practices into six functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover, giving organizations a common language to assess and improve their security posture. It's not a certification; it's a maturity and risk-management framework.

Why it matters

NIST CSF is widely used as a baseline for building a risk register, benchmarking maturity, and communicating security posture to leadership and boards in terms that aren't tool- or vendor-specific.

How Sense Six Cyber helps

  • Assess current maturity against each of the six CSF functions
  • Build a risk register and control roadmap aligned to CSF
  • Translate CSF categories into a prioritized action plan
  • Use CSF as the common framework underneath SOC 2 or ISO 27001 work
  • Report progress to leadership in plain language

Ideal for

Companies wanting a practical, non-certification framework to structure their security program and reporting.