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The Cyber Assessment Framework is a mechanism designed by NCSC for assuring the security of organisations. The CAF is tailored towards the needs of Critical National Infrastructure, to meet the NIS regulations, [1] but the objectives can be used by other organisations.
The NCSC absorbed and replaced CESG (the information security arm of GCHQ), the Centre for Cyber Assessment (CCA), Computer Emergency Response Team UK (CERT UK) and the cyber-related responsibilities of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI). [3]
Government departments and some other public-sector organisations, will have their cybersecurity reviewed under the GovAssure process; The controls are expected to be stricter than before, using the NCSC's Cyber Assessment Framework and its 14 key principles; The new process will be run by the Government Security Group, with advice from NCSC; [5]
IASME Governance was originally developed as an academic-SME partnership that attracted a lot of interest from government and small businesses [2]. Research towards the IASME model was undertaken in the UK during 2009–10, [3] after an acknowledgement that the current international information assurance standard (ISO/IEC 27001) was complex for resource-strapped SMEs, providing a weakness in ...
The security policy must be explicit, well-defined, and enforced by the computer system. Three basic security policies are specified: [6] Mandatory Security Policy – Enforces access control rules based directly on an individual's clearance, authorization for the information and the confidentiality level of the information being sought.
The consortium assesses individuals based on the Skills Framework, as part of a certification scheme driven by NCSC, the IA arm of GCHQ. Full membership of the institute is information security's professional standard and endorses the knowledge, experience and professionalism of an individual in this field.
The CMMC framework and model was developed by Office of the Under Secretary of Defense for Acquisition and Sustainment (OUSD(A&S)) of the United States Department of Defense through existing contracts with Carnegie Mellon University, The Johns Hopkins University Applied Physics Laboratory, and Futures, Inc. [1] The Cybersecurity Maturity Model ...
Information security standards (also cyber security standards [1]) are techniques generally outlined in published materials that attempt to protect a user's or organization's cyber environment. [2] This environment includes users themselves, networks, devices, all software, processes, information in storage or transit, applications, services ...