Meeting the Third-Party Risk Requirements of NIST CSF in 2024 | UpGuard

**NIST Cybersecurity Framework (CSF) 2.0** overview emphasizing the new **Govern (GV)** function and its **Cybersecurity Supply Chain Risk Management (GV.SC-01–GV.SC-10)** subcategories, clarifying that CSF is mandatory for U.S. federal entities and their supply chains but optional elsewhere, and mapping practical third‑party risk measures—attack surface monitoring, vendor tiering, security assessments/questionnaires, security ratings, and regular pen‑test reporting—to GV.SC requirements to strengthen vendor risk management and supply chain resilience.