Industry applauds NIST effort on revised draft update for cyber framework

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is winning praise from industry officials for its recently released draft update to its landmark framework of cybersecurity standards, after months of rewrites on hot-button issues such as the use of measurements and supply-chain risks.

"The 1.1 version of the NIST Framework may prove to be more impactful than the original version released in 2014,” said Internet Security Alliance president and CEO Larry Clinton in a statement released Wednesday.

“While the initial NIST...