Obama budget applies NIST framework to government's cyber needs

The federal government employed the same enterprise-wide cyber risk management approach to the fiscal 2017 budget that it is urging private entities to adopt as the foundation of their own cybersecurity efforts, according to a senior White House official. 

The fiscal 2017 budget proposal “very much reflects” the core elements in the National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework of cybersecurity standards, White House cybersecurity coordinator Michael Daniel said Tuesday on a conference call with reporters. “We are very much...