Financial sector aims to finalize NIST-based cybersecurity 'profile' this summer

Financial institutions’ efforts to streamline compliance with various regulatory requirements by customizing the National Institute of Standards and Technology's cybersecurity framework could be complete as early as this June, and the plan could inform future versions of the widely used framework, according to a NIST official.

“There may be things that happen with financial services where we go 'wait a second, these other sectors need that too, maybe that would be a great feature for version next,'” NIST framework manager...