Healthcare’s Model Approach to Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity

The United States has seen a marked increase in the use of electronic information and a resulting increase in the level of exposure to cyber attacks, which target an organization’s use of cyberspace for the purpose of stealing information or disrupting, disabling, or destroying related information resources. As a result of these ever increasing cyber threats, the President directed the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) to work with the private sector to develop the Framework for Critical Infrastructure Cybersecurity. The NIST Cybersecurity Framework provides an overarching incident management-based model that industries, industry sectors, or organizations can leverage to identify opportunities for improving their management of cybersecurity risk.