Privacy group urges NIST to adopt 'integrated' approach to cybersecurity, privacy frameworks

The open-internet group Public Knowledge is urging NIST to adopt its proposed “integrated” approach to a privacy framework that mimics the structural “core functions” of the agency's landmark cybersecurity framework, a recommendation that could add to NIST's struggles in reconciling two distinct proposed approaches for developing a final privacy document later this year.

“We approach this issue from the starting point that an organization should find individual use of the CSF [cybersecurity framework] or the Privacy Framework to be as...