NIST Cyber Security Framework Functions

Last week I introduced the National Institute of Standards and Technology Cybersecurity Framework, commonly referred to as the CSF and its primary functions. Identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. What are these five functions actually mean? Let's start with identify. Identify means that we work to develop an organizational understanding that helps us manage cybersecurity risks to our systems, our assets data and our capabilities and have that protect the protect function helps us to develop, implement appropriate safeguards to help us ensure the delivery of critical infrastructure services.