NIST CSF 2.0, explained for organizations without a security team

NIST CSF 2.0 sounds intimidating. It isn't. It organizes cybersecurity into six plain questions:

• Govern — do you know what you're protecting and who's responsible?
• Identify — do you know your assets and your weaknesses?
• Protect — are access, encryption, and patching in place?
• Detect — would you know if something went wrong?
• Respond — do you have a plan when it does?
• Recover — can you get back up afterward?

The reason Sightline builds on CSF is that almost every other framework — HIPAA, SOC 2, PCI DSS, ISO 27001, CMMC — maps back to these same fundamentals. Assess the spine once, and you get an indicative read on all of them. One assessment, every framework you carry.