- NIST released a quick-start guide for using artificial intelligence in Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 analysis and reporting
- The guide provides structured AI prompts and three notional use cases covering policy reviews, current-state profiling and target-state planning
- NIST is accepting comments on the guide and its AI prompts through Oct. 15
The National Institute of Standards and Technology has published a preliminary draft of its quick-start guide focused on using artificial intelligence for cybersecurity framework analysis and reporting.
The draft will be open for review and comments until Oct. 15, the agency said Wednesday.
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What Is NIST’s New AI and Cybersecurity Guide?
The QuickStart Guide for Using Artificial Intelligence for Cybersecurity Framework Analysis and Reporting explores how generative AI could become a practical tool for organizations working with the Cybersecurity Framework 2.0.
The publication demonstrates how generative AI tools can help practitioners organize information and develop CSF-related materials, and provides insight into how prompt engineering is currently being applied to CSF analysis and implementation.
The document includes structured AI prompts that translate natural-language inputs into specified CSF 2.0 outputs. NIST also includes simulated organizational files for a fictitious company, examples and tips intended to help users begin applying the approaches.
How Does the Guide Use AI for CSF 2.0 Implementation?
The draft publication presents three notional use cases demonstrating potential applications of AI in cybersecurity framework activities.
The first use case examines how AI-assisted reviews could evaluate an organization’s cybersecurity policy, strategy and risk governance against CSF 2.0 outcomes.
The second use case demonstrates how to create a draft current state profile. Under the example, AI is used to map organizational artifacts and personnel interview notes to CSF 2.0 outcomes while documenting assumptions and observed gaps in available evidence and interviews.
The third use case focuses on developing a draft CSF target state profile. It illustrates how organizations could draw upon internal and industry references to describe desired outcomes that meet mission objectives and stakeholder expectations, and address known risks and requirements.
What Is Cybersecurity Framework 2.0?
The National Institute of Standards and Technology’s Cybersecurity Framework 2.0 provides organizations with a common approach for managing cybersecurity risk. The framework is designed to help organizations of different sizes, sectors and levels of cybersecurity maturity understand and communicate their cybersecurity risks and priorities.
NIST also recently published a preliminary draft of its Cybersecurity Framework Profile for Artificial Intelligence, which guides organizations on the secure adoption of AI.
