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Glossary

NIST Cybersecurity Framework

A voluntary US framework organising cyber security into functions: govern, identify, protect, detect, respond, recover.

What it means

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework organises cyber security activity into a small number of functions and a tiered view of maturity. Version 2.0 added Govern alongside the original five. It is voluntary, widely adopted internationally, and deliberately outcome-based rather than prescriptive.

Its value is as a common language across technical and executive audiences. Its limit is the same thing: an outcome-based framework does not say whether your implementation of an outcome was a reasonable decision.

Where MyRISK fits

What we do about it

MyRISK does not score or certify against NIST CSF. Where a framework leaves off — showing that a specific decision taken under it was reasonable at the time — is where Trace starts.

MyRISK Trace

Is this the thing you are actually trying to fix?

A definition rarely settles it. Tell us what happened — the request, the finding, the challenge or the incident — and we will say where to start, or that it isn't us.