NIST cybersecurity framework: Your guide to protecting and securing your data

You know the old adage—you don’t know what you don’t know?

Organizations often build cybersecurity strategies with their own knowledge and experience as a guide. But like the adage suggests, this can leave critical gaps and leave your data vulnerable to cyberattacks.

The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) framework helps fill those gaps by offering a structured, proven approach to protect what matters most: your data. And with six clear principles in the framework—Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover, and Govern—you can methodically assess your existing strategy to find those gaps and address them. Whether you're just starting out or refining your cybersecurity strategy, the framework serves as a solid foundation for a comprehensive security plan.

NetApp’s approach to cyber resilience aligns to each principle of the NIST cybersecurity framework, delivering advanced features to safeguard your data, from initial classification to rapid recovery. Whether it’s identifying critical assets, protecting them with immutable backups, or detecting anomalous activity in real time, NetApp^® solutions build in security at the data layer. And with automated responses to incidents and rapid recovery capabilities, NetApp helps  your organization to survive a breach and bounce back stronger than ever.

To learn more about how NetApp aligns to the NIST cybersecurity framework, check out our e-book. And to dive deeper into our video series and learn how to architect true cyber resilience, binge the rest of our series playlist.