The National Governors Association (NGA) selected seven states — Colorado, Michigan, Mississippi, New York, Oregon, Pennsylvania and Tennessee — to participate in a new project focused on implementing best practices on advancing statewide cybersecurity.

Mike Tyson notably said, “Everyone has a plan ‘till they get punched in the mouth.” So, how do you ensure the same doesn’t hold true for your company’s incident response plan when a real breach occurs?  Enter the NIST Framework category titled Mitigation.

Albert Einstein once observed, “Not everything that can be counted counts, and not everything that counts can be counted.”

We find ourselves in the middle of football season as we tackle the NIST Cybersecurity Framework’s “Respond” function.