Cybersecurity Maturity: From Tier 1 to Tier 4 with NIST CSF 2.0
1. Introduction Cybersecurity maturity measures the degree to which your organization has formalized, consistent and improvable capabilities to identify, protect, detect, respond and recover. It is not the same as sophistication: a small business can be mature for its risk profile without a red team, and a multinational with the most expensive tools on the market can be deeply immature if nobody knows who operates them or what their data actually decides. In this article we will explain how to assess your company’s cybersecurity maturity with NIST CSF 2.0, what Tiers 1 to 4 really mean, how to complement the …

