On February 25, the Financial Services Roundtable ("FSR") issued a press release praising the NIST Cybersecurity Framework as "the 'Rosetta Stone' of Cross-Sector Cyber Defense for U.S. Companies." The FSR stated that the NIST framework allows a diverse set of industries to easily apply common approaches to assess and prevent cyber attacks. The press release warned against regulation schemes that are not aligned with the NIST framework, which can require organizations to comply with multiple regimes that potentially conflict.

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