NIST CSF 2.0 Essentials

NIST CSF 2.0 is the common language boards, examiners and insurers now use to ask about cybersecurity. Version 2.0 added GOVERN, and most organizations discover their largest gaps there.

This package gives you an honest, item-by-item baseline against NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0. Every subcategory is already in the workbook. Score each on a 0 to 5 maturity scale, set a target, and the workbook calculates the gap, places each gap in a wave (Do first, Do next, Do later) and flags what is not assessed, gaps with no owner and any level 3 or higher claim with no evidence behind it.

The summary tab rolls everything up by function with a current-versus-target chart you can put straight into a leadership report.

It also includes the three foundation policies every program starts with, each paired with a full technical procedure: governance that names no tools, and step-by-step execution with placeholders for your tools, settings and screenshots.

What is included

1. NIST-CSF-2-Assessment.xlsx: the full assessment, summary and chart.

2. NIST-CSF-2-Essentials-Guide.pdf: the framework explained, the maturity scale, honest scoring and your first 30 days.

3. CSF Organizational Profile (Word).

4. Three full policies (8 to 10 pages each): Information Security, Acceptable Use and Access Control, with document control, roles and RACI, numbered policy statements, organization-defined parameters, metrics and a framework alignment table (Word).

5. Three companion procedures (12 to 16 pages each): Information Security Program Management, Acceptable Use Onboarding and Enforcement, and Access Management, with step-by-step technical instructions, configuration tables and screenshot placeholders (Word).

Who it is for

Security managers, IT directors, vCISOs, compliance leads and executives at organizations of roughly 25 to 1,000 people who need to measure and report their cybersecurity program against NIST CSF 2.0, whether for a board, an examiner, an insurer or customers.

Formats

Excel assessment, PDF guide, 3 policies, 3 procedures.

About the framework text

Includes the official NIST subcategory text and Implementation Examples, which are public domain.

License

License. Your purchase grants one organization a perpetual, non-exclusive license to use, copy, and modify these materials for its own internal security program, including sharing completed questionnaires and contract exhibits with its own vendors. You may not resell, sublicense, or redistribute the templates themselves, in original or modified form, as a product. Consultants and managed service providers who want to use the materials across multiple client organizations need a practitioner license; contact cyberauctoritas.com.

Disclaimer

This material is provided for general information and internal program building. It is not legal advice and does not certify compliance with any law, regulation, or framework. Contract language must be reviewed by qualified counsel before use. Adapt every document to your organization, your risk tolerance, and your obligations.