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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]
Work on the Orange book began in 1979. The creation of the Orange Book was a major project spanning the period from Nibaldi's 1979 report [4] to the official release of the Orange Book in 1983. The first public draft of the evaluation criteria was the Blue Book released in May 1982. [1] The Orange book was published in August 1983.
Backed by the UK government and overseen by the National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC). It encourages organisations to adopt good practices in information security . [ 1 ] Cyber Essentials also includes an assurance framework and a simple set of security controls to protect information from threats coming from the internet .
The National Cybersecurity Center (NCSC) is a component of US-CERT’s budget. The NCSC fulfills its presidential mandate as outlined in National Security Presidential Directive 54/Homeland Security Presidential Directive 23 [ 5 ] in ensuring that federal agencies can access and receive information and intelligence needed to execute their ...
To devise a robust information assurance program, one must consider not only the security goals of the program (see below), but also how these goals relate specifically to the various states in which information can reside in a system and the full range of available security safeguards that must be considered in the design. The McCumber model ...
On March 5, 2009, Beckstrom tendered his resignation as the Director of the National Cybersecurity Center. [4] According to The Washington Post , Beckstrom resigned, "...due to a lack of resources and because there were efforts underway to fold his group – as well as the division Reitinger is joining – into a facility at the NSA."
The new CAF 2006 was presented at the 4th European Quality Conference in Finland. In 2009 and 2010 followed a procedure for external feedback on the CAF implementation in the organisation and a tailor-made version of the CAF for the education sector. [2] Until today, the CAF 2006 is the most recent version of the CAF model.