NIST moves to finalize cyber framework's 'roadmap,' tee up evolving dialogue

With version 1.1 of the framework of cybersecurity standards wrapped up -- and a public webcast on tap this week to discuss the final version -- a senior NIST official said attention is turning to how organizations apply the framework as well as to releasing a “roadmap” for work on unsettled issues like metrics.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology is moving into “the era of applying the framework,” Matthew Barrett, NIST's program manager for the framework, told Inside...