Wondering where to start with cybersecurity management? For the past 10 years, the NIST Cybersecurity Framework has been an essential guiding document. Now, NIST released a revamped version of the CSF. Security Management Senior Editor Megan Gates explains what changes this new edition of the gold standard for cybersecurity best practices brings for security practitioners worldwide. Also in this episode, school psychologist Amy Lowder discusses how students’ behavior and related threat assessments have changed in K-12 schools since the start of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Additional Resources

NIST Cybersecurity Framework: https://www.nist.gov/cyberframework

More on cybersecurity from Security Management: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/Topics/cybersecurity/

Read more about school security and early intervention here: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2024/03/schools/

Learn about adapting behavioral threat assessment to students’ developmental stages: https://www.asisonline.org/security-management-magazine/articles/2024/03/schools/weighing-development-k12-risk-assessment/

Learn how Amy Lowder and Cabarrus Schools are changing behavioral threat assessments: https://www.wral.com/story/nc-schools-adding-threat-assessment-teams-amid-concerns-about-student-safety/21253173/

Read best practices about leveraging school resource officers through NASRO: https://www.nasro.org/clientuploads/NASRO_BestPractices21.pdf