NIST CSF Compliance

NIST CSF 2.0 compliance
for Microsoft cloud

Take a structured, risk-based approach to cybersecurity with a unified platform that maps your Azure and Microsoft 365 environment to all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions, replacing fragmented processes and manual evidence chasing.

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TENET dashboard showing NIST CSF 2.0 compliance progress across the six functions

Who It Is For

Who is NIST CSF 2.0 for?

For any organization

NIST CSF 2.0 is a voluntary framework, not a legal mandate: built to apply regardless of size, sector, or maturity level

Small and mid-size businessesEnterprisesCritical infrastructure operatorsTechnology and SaaS providersFinancial servicesHealthcare organizations

Increasingly expected by

Even where it isn't mandated directly, CSF alignment is often the reference point these ask for

Enterprise customersCyber insurance underwritersVendor security questionnairesFederal contract requirementsBoards and auditors

Compliance Intelligence

Built-in compliance intelligence

Detect compliance drift, generate reports, and monitor NIST CSF 2.0 posture through automated assessments across your Azure and Microsoft 365 environments.

Simplify investigation

Drill down from any of the six NIST CSF 2.0 functions into its categories, all the way down to controls and resource-level assessments across your Azure and Microsoft 365 environment. Questionnaires open with guidance on what good looks like from the NIST Implementation Examples, Microsoft 365 controls are grouped by Identity, Data, Apps and Device, and a toggle switches the same view to NIS2.

Compliance Drift Detection

Detect compliance drift on every refresh, not weeks later during a periodic review. TENET re-assesses your controls automatically so your posture stays current and audit-ready.

Risk-Based Prioritization

Surface the misconfigurations that carry the most compliance risk, ranked by control severity, so your team focuses remediation where it matters most.

The Six Functions

What does NIST CSF 2.0 cover?

Govern: Establish and monitor your cybersecurity risk management strategy, roles, policy, and organizational oversight: new to CSF 2.0

Identify: Understand your assets, data, and risk exposure across the organization

Protect: Implement safeguards that limit or contain the impact of a potential cybersecurity event

Detect: Find and analyze possible cybersecurity attacks and compromises as they happen

Respond: Take action once a cybersecurity incident has been detected

Recover: Restore assets and operations affected by a cybersecurity incident

Business Benefits

Benefits of NIST CSF 2.0

Operational resilience

Protect your critical cloud infrastructure and ensure continuity in the face of evolving cyber threats.

A common language for risk

Give security, leadership, and the board a shared framework for discussing and prioritizing cyber risk.

Improve visibility and control across your organization

Gain a clear understanding of risk and policy effectiveness so no threat goes undetected.

Build trust with partners, customers, and insurers

Demonstrate a structured, defensible approach to cybersecurity risk management.

Strengthen supply chain resilience

The Govern function brings supply chain risk management into the same platform as the rest of your compliance posture: not a separate spreadsheet.

Compliance posture

Reduce compliance friction

Automated scoring across all six NIST CSF 2.0 functions marks a requirement met when its mapped controls pass or its evidence is filed. Download the compliance report for auditors and focus remediation on the highest risks.

Risk management

Catalog and manage business risk

Create, catalog and visualize business risks in one place, starting from pre-built risk templates. Record clear assessment, ownership and treatment rationale to document your risk analysis for auditors.

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Audit evidence

Policy management

Store, version and manage your information security policies in one place, starting from ready-made templates. An active policy filed against a requirement counts as evidence toward it.

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Supply chain risk

Integrated vendor risk management

Supply chain risk sits in the Govern function of NIST CSF 2.0, and managing it manually quickly becomes unsustainable. Maintain your IT supplier inventory, integrate supply chain risk into your compliance posture, and use questionnaires.

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Workflows

Every compliance workflow in one place

Beyond framework dashboards, TENET ships a full suite of compliance modules that keep your program complete and audit-ready.

Respond and Recover Readiness

Cover the Respond and Recover categories, from incident management to recovery planning, with guided questionnaires and policy evidence.

Accelerated Remediation

Reduce mean time to remediation with a unified platform that enables teams to assign issues with remediation guidance to the right owners, and progress tracking until resolution without ever leaving the platform.

Exec-Ready Reports

Generate on-demand compliance reports that translate technical posture data into clear summaries your leadership and board can act on, in multiple languages and with no slide-deck assembly required.

How TENET Helps

Align with NIST CSF 2.0

TENET gives a clear, structured approach to NIST CSF 2.0, helping you strengthen operational resilience, manage cloud risk and demonstrate a mature security posture. Move from reactive controls to an always-current program.

Aligning with NIST CSF 2.0 is not just about implementing controls. It is about ensuring your organization can govern, identify, protect against, detect, respond to, and recover from cyber threats while maintaining critical services.

Why customers choose TENET

A clear, defensible approach to NIST CSF 2.0

Understand where you stand across all six functions, map scope, and implement controls in a structured way that aligns with the framework.

Continuous monitoring of cloud risk and resilience

Up-to-date visibility into threats, security gaps, and control effectiveness across your Microsoft cloud environment.

Built-in Respond and Recover readiness

Cover incident management, analysis and recovery requirements with guided procedures and policy evidence tracked in your NIST CSF 2.0 questionnaires.

Leadership accountability and reporting

Enable senior stakeholders to take ownership of cybersecurity through structured reporting, oversight, and audit trails that demonstrate continuous alignment.

FAQs

What is NIST CSF 2.0?

The NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0 is a voluntary framework published by the U.S. National Institute of Standards and Technology that helps organizations understand, manage, and reduce cybersecurity risk. Version 2.0, released in 2024, organizes guidance into six functions. Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover, and is designed to apply to organizations of any size, sector, or maturity level, not just U.S. federal agencies or critical infrastructure.

Is NIST CSF 2.0 mandatory?

No. NIST CSF 2.0 is voluntary and is not itself a law or regulation. That said, it is frequently referenced or required indirectly, through cyber insurance applications, enterprise vendor security questionnaires, federal contract requirements, and as the underlying structure other regulations and standards are mapped against. Many organizations adopt it as a practical baseline for demonstrating cybersecurity maturity even without a direct mandate.

What are the six functions of NIST CSF 2.0?

Govern (risk management strategy, roles, policy, and oversight, new in 2.0), Identify (understanding assets, data, and risk exposure), Protect (safeguards that limit or contain impact), Detect (finding and analyzing possible attacks and compromises), Respond (taking action once an incident is detected), and Recover (restoring assets and operations after an incident).

How is NIST CSF 2.0 different from NIS2?

NIS2 is an EU legal directive with mandatory compliance obligations, defined in-scope sectors, incident reporting deadlines, and financial penalties for non-compliance. NIST CSF 2.0 is a voluntary, non-regulatory framework with global applicability and no built-in enforcement mechanism or fines. Many organizations use NIST CSF 2.0 as their internal risk management structure while separately tracking legal obligations like NIS2 for regulatory compliance.

Read more about NIS2 compliance in TENET.

How does TENET map to NIST CSF 2.0?

TENET automates the mapping of your security controls and evidence from Azure and Microsoft 365 to the NIST CSF 2.0 functions and categories. It provides continuously refreshed posture monitoring, automated reporting, and audit-ready documentation, reducing the manual effort involved in tracking alignment across all six functions.

Run the free Self-Service Assessment to get a NIST CSF 2.0 compliance report for your tenant.

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