Cybersecurity Frameworks Becoming the Norm, Survey Finds

A survey released on Tuesday suggests the federal government’s recommended framework for how companies can reduce their cybersecurity risk is gaining traction.

Forty-three percent of the 338 respondents said that in the next year they will have adopted or plan to adopt the National Institute of Standards and Technology’s set of best practices known as the Framework for Improving Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity . More companies are planning to adopt it than any other framework, although its overall rate of adoption may still be low.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology or NIST, a division of the U.S. Department of Commerce, established its framework in 2014 after President Obama ...