From the course: NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 Primer: From Fundamentals to Implementation by Pearson

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Introduction

Introduction

All right, welcome back. So we are now in lesson three, which is kind of part two of our tour of CSF core. And here we're just going to continue on really and look at the remaining functions that comprise this whole lexicon or language that NIST has made for us. In this sub-lesson, we are just going to introduce stuff, do the high-level overview, and then in the subsequent sub-lessons within this lesson, we will look at each of the functions individually. So, without further ado, let's just do the high-level overview and go over what the remaining functions are. So, the first is kind of self-explanatory to my mind, protect. So, this is all about controls and safeguards that we can implement to reduce the likelihood or the impact of risks of, you know, that could be attacks or it could be just risk from bad luck even, right? So overall, Protect is about reducing risk, whatever the source of that risk may be. And it's got five categories. So let's run through those really quickly. It's…

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