The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) is to build a common language through a set of best practices and security principles that any organization can apply to combat cybercrime. Verizons 2017 Data Breach Investigations Report found that 88% of breaches still fall into one of the nine patterns it identified back in 2014. There were 112,000 InfoSec analyst job openings last year in the U.S. but only 96,870 workers to go around. Cybersecurity is a race, rather than a destination, it’s vital to keep identifying gaps, making improvements, and validating your activities.”]