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Understanding your report

Your report turns your answers into a clear picture and a plan. The sections below explain how to read it.

Illustration: your report pairs an overall maturity read with a prioritized roadmap.

The six functions

Your results are organized around the six functions of the NIST Cybersecurity Framework 2.0: Govern, Identify, Protect, Detect, Respond, and Recover. For each, you get a read of where you stand today, rather than a raw score you have to decode.

Your roadmap

The report sorts your next steps into now, next, and later: what to do first, what follows, and what can wait. Each step comes with practical instructions sized to a business like yours, and where a tool would help, the report suggests options that fit the platforms you already run.

Reassessing as you improve

As you work through your roadmap, come back and reassess. When you reassess, your new report compares itself with the previous one, so the progress you have made is right there on the page.

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