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New NIST cybersecurity practice guide helps organizations recover from ransomware and other destructive events

NIST has announced the release of its latest practice guide, ‘Data Integrity: Recovering from Ransomware and Other Destructive Events, SP 1800-11’. As a draft NIST Cybersecurity Practice Guide, comments and feedback are being sought.  The deadline for comments is November 6th, 2017. 

The new guide explores methods that organizations can use to effectively recover from a data corruption event in various IT enterprise environments. It also maps security characteristics to standards, guidance, and best practices from NIST and other standards organizations.

Read the guide and submit comments.


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