Inside Cybersecurity Reports:
Incomplete efforts to implement President Obama’s “visionary” 2013 executive order on cybersecurity have created a policy vacuum that some federal and state officials are moving to fill with regulations, according to Internet Security Alliance president Larry Clinton. Representatives from 27 industry groups attended a meeting on Monday with officials from the National Institute of Standards and Technology and the White House to discuss next steps on NIST’s voluntary framework of cybersecurity standards, which was a centerpiece of Executive Order 13636.NIST in the coming days is expected to release a Request for Information on the framework. A new “Multi-Association Cybersecurity Framework Development Initiative” has formed to help guide industry’s response and efforts on the framework….SOURCE