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 — NIST CSF 2.0 Dashboard

68%

CSF Score

Passing

Gaps

Govern62%

Identify79%

Protect74%

Detect58%

Respond65%

Recover70%

Overall CSF Posture

68 / 100

Aggregated Risk Detection

Surface misconfigurations prioritized by risk, mapped to NIST CSF 2.0 functions.

Simplify Investigation

Drill from a function down to categories, controls, and findings.

Compliance Assurance

Detect drift automatically and stay audit-ready, continuously.

Reduce Compliance Costs

Automate evidence collection and cut manual audit prep time.

Who is NIST CSF 2.0 for?

Any organisation, any sector

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 organisations

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

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.

Compliance Drift Detection

Detect compliance drift as it happens — not weeks later during a periodic review. TENET surfaces live security alerts so your posture is always current and audit-ready.

Risk-Based Prioritisation

Surface the misconfigurations that carry the most compliance risk, ranked by control severity and business impact, 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 organisational oversight — new to CSF 2.0

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

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

Detect: Find and analyse 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 aligning with 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 prioritising cyber risk.

Improve visibility and control across your organisation

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

Continuously assess your NIST CSF 2.0 posture with automated scoring across all six functions, enabling confident reporting, faster gap identification, and team alignment to focus remediation on the highest-priority risks.

Security Recommendations — Sample

Risk	Recommendation	CSF Function	Status
High	MFA should be enabled on accounts with subscription owner	Protect	Findings
High	Storage accounts should restrict network access	Protect	Compliant
Medium	TLS 1.2+ should be enforced for all App Services	Protect	Findings
Medium	Vulnerability assessment on SQL servers should be enabled	Detect	Findings

Risk Register — Sample Tenant12 RISKS

Critical

High

Medium

Critical

Unauthorised access to production systems

3 findings

Mitigate

High

Data breach via misconfigured storage

2 findings

Mitigate

High

Privileged account compromise

4 findings

Mitigate

Medium

Third-party service disruption

1 finding

Risk management

Catalogue and manage business risk

Create, catalogue, and visualise business risks in one place. With pre-built risk templates your team can build a comprehensive risk profile with clear assessment, ownership, and treatment rationale, allowing you to document your risk analysis process and treatment decisions for auditors.

Audit evidence

Policy management

Store, version, and manage your information security policies and vendor contracts in one place. Each policy is linked to the controls it satisfies, making it straightforward to show auditors exactly how your documentation supports your compliance programme.

Policy Vault — Information Security8 POLICIES

Information Security Policy

v3.2 · 12 controls

Current

Access Control Policy

v2.1 · 8 controls

Current

Incident Response Plan

v1.4 · 6 controls

Review Due

Business Continuity Plan

v2.0 · 9 controls

Current

Supplier Inventory — ICT Vendors6 SUPPLIERS

Critical

Cloud Infrastructure Provider

92%

Critical

Identity & Access Provider

88%

High

Managed SOC Provider

76%

Medium

SaaS Collaboration Platform

81%

Supply chain risk

Integrated vendor risk management

Supply chain risk sits inside the Govern function of NIST CSF 2.0, and managing it manually quickly becomes unsustainable. Maintain your IT supplier inventory, integrate supply chain risk directly into your compliance posture, and evaluate vendor security with pre-built and custom questionnaires.

Every compliance workflow in one place

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

Incident Management

Track security incidents end-to-end — classification, severity, timeline, and impact scope — aligned to the Respond and Recover functions.

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 — no slide-deck assembly required.

How TENET Helps

How TENET helps you align with and maintain NIST CSF 2.0

TENET provides a clear, structured approach to NIST CSF 2.0, helping you strengthen operational resilience, manage cloud risk, and demonstrate a mature cybersecurity posture with confidence. Move from reactive controls to a proactive, always-current risk management programme.

Aligning with NIST CSF 2.0 is not just about implementing controls. It is about ensuring your organisation 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

Real-time visibility into threats, security gaps, and control effectiveness across your organisation and Azure infrastructure.

Built-in incident management

Detect, respond to, and recover from incidents with the full lifecycle tracked within the platform.

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 organisations understand, manage, and reduce cybersecurity risk. Version 2.0, released in 2024, organises guidance into six functions — Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover — and is designed to apply to organisations 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 organisations 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 analysing 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 organisations use NIST CSF 2.0 as their internal risk management structure while separately tracking legal obligations like NIS2 for regulatory compliance.

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 real-time posture monitoring, automated reporting, and audit-ready documentation, reducing the manual effort involved in tracking alignment across all six functions.

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