Global telecom NTT offers its take on NIST cyber framework update plans, sees opportunity to drive security improvements

The Tokyo-based telecom giant NTT is pleased with the approach NIST is taking toward the “CSF 2.0” cyber framework update, according to its chief information security officer, who suggests the process could yield agreement around minimum cyber hygiene standards that preserve the voluntary nature of the framework.

“Setting minimum requirements is a departure from the fundamentals of a risk-based approach but it may be possible to come up with a consensus minimum” through the NIST CSF update, Shinichi Yokohama, CISO...