The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is a non-regulatory agency within the US Department of Commerce. NIST serves as an unbiased source of scientific data and practices, including cybersecurity practices. Among NIST's many frameworks, the Cybersecurity Framework (CSF), released in 2014, aims to assist organizations in protecting their critical infrastructure from cyberattacks using five core functions: identify, protect, detect, respond, and recover.