For CISOs, Risk Managers, and Federal Compliance Teams
Assess your cybersecurity posture against all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, Recover — with structured assessments and AI-powered gap analysis.
The NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0, released in February 2024, provides a structured approach to managing cybersecurity risk. It organizes cybersecurity outcomes into six core functions: Govern (new in 2.0), Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. Each function contains categories and subcategories that describe specific security outcomes.
Unlike prescriptive standards, NIST CSF is outcome-based — it tells you what to achieve, not exactly how to achieve it. Organizations assess their current state against each function, define target profiles, and prioritize improvements based on risk. The addition of the Govern function in 2.0 elevates cybersecurity governance, supply chain risk, and organizational context to a top-level concern.
“NIST CSF 2.0 is the most widely adopted cybersecurity framework globally. Its strength is flexibility — but that flexibility means organizations must do the hard work of mapping their own controls to its outcomes.”
Adopting NIST CSF often starts strong — a baseline assessment, a gap analysis, a roadmap. Then execution stalls. The framework's flexibility becomes a liability when no system enforces assessment cadence, tracks remediation progress, or maintains evidence that controls are operating as intended.
Organizations frequently discover during reassessment that the same gaps persist: Detect and Respond functions lag behind Protect, supply chain risk management (now elevated under Govern) has no structured process, and risk-based prioritization happens informally rather than through documented methodology.
Thirdsentry maps your control environment to all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions, categories, and subcategories. Initial assessment establishes your current profile — AI-powered scoring evaluates control maturity across each function and identifies the specific subcategories where gaps exist.
The platform converts assessment findings into actionable risk entries and remediation tasks. Rather than a static gap analysis report that gets filed away, each gap becomes a tracked item with an owner, a deadline, and evidence requirements. Reassessments measure progress against your target profile, creating a documented improvement trajectory.
For organizations subject to federal requirements or using NIST CSF as the backbone of their security program, Thirdsentry provides the operational layer that turns the framework from a reference document into a managed program.
Assess against all NIST CSF 2.0 functions: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover.
Establish baseline maturity and define target profiles with tracked progress toward closing gaps.
New in CSF 2.0 — structured assessment of cybersecurity governance, supply chain risk, and organizational context.
AI-powered scoring prioritizes gaps by risk impact, helping teams focus remediation on what matters most.
Map NIST CSF subcategories to controls from other frameworks (SOC 2, ISO 27001) to reduce duplicate effort.
Reassessments document maturity progression over time with evidence of controls implemented.
Yes. Thirdsentry includes the full NIST CSF 2.0 framework with all six functions, including the new Govern function added in the February 2024 release.
Yes. Many organizations use NIST CSF as their primary cybersecurity framework while also maintaining SOC 2, ISO 27001, or industry-specific compliance. Thirdsentry supports multiple active frameworks with shared controls mapped across them.
NIST CSF is voluntary for most private organizations, but it's increasingly referenced in regulations and contractual requirements. Federal agencies and contractors may have mandatory adoption requirements. Many organizations adopt it as a best-practice baseline regardless of regulatory mandate.
See how Thirdsentry automates NIST CSF control mapping, evidence collection, and gap analysis — so your team focuses on risk decisions, not compliance overhead.