Industry groups praise process and revisions in NIST cyber framework version 1.1, suggest tweaks

Major industry groups are strongly supportive of the National Institute of Standards and Technology's finalized “version 1.1” of the framework on cybersecurity standards, released last week, while also suggesting a few tweaks and additional work in areas like “lessons learned."

“From our perspective this is definitely a step in the right direction,” Kent Landfield, the chief standards and technology policy strategist for McAfee, told Inside Cybersecurity. “NIST is taking industry input and has applied it appropriately."

McAfee was among...