After Healthcare.gov debacle, group pushes for tests of NIST cybersecurity framework

The Internet Security Alliance, a multi-sector trade association, wants to know what adoption of a new cybersecurity framework will entail for companies in critical infrastructure industries.

In a proposal pitched to the Department of Homeland Security and sector specific agencies, the ISA this week called for beta tests on the National Institute of Standards and Technology's framework to identify the cost-effectiveness of adopting the controls it recommends.

""We have already seen the results of not doing enough testing before launching a major program with Healthcare.gov," said Larry Clinton, president and CEO of the ISA. "Similarly, the cybersecurity framework needs to be tested just as the private sector would do with any major product or service before it was rolled," he said in a statement