Interview: securing the University using NIST’s Cyber Framework

**Executive summary:** An interview with Plamen Martinov, CISO for the Biological Sciences Division at the University of Chicago, describing how the organization adopted the NIST Cybersecurity Framework to create common language, baseline security maturity across decentralized departments, engage faculty governance, train staff via tabletop exercises, and balance data accessibility with security; the piece focuses on process, people, and governance rather than reporting any cyber incident.