NIST paper promotes security segmentation for small manufacturers

A new white paper from the National Institute of Standards and Technology offers a six-step approach to help small manufacturers use the NIST cybersecurity framework and the agency’s “CSF manufacturing profile” to implement security segmentation as “a foundational preparation step for additional security strategies like Zero Trust.”

“Security segmentation is a cost effective and efficient security design approach for protecting cyber assets by grouping them based on their communication and security requirements,” NIST said in a release Thursday.

“Small manufacturers...