The American Hospital Association (AHA) has offered a number of recommendations to improve the preliminary cybersecurity framework developed by the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) The framework aims to provide both private- and public-sector organizations with a common language and shared understanding of the cybersecurity threat landscape. The AHAs recommendations are as follows. They suggest that the NIST consider how different sectors have to negotiate variable implementation mechanisms in order to adopt the new cybersecurity standards. Some cyber experts criticize the framework for failing to address, among other things, how businesses can work to reduce cybersecurity risks. Others believe that the significant costs of adopting the framework, which would require companies to draft a new cyber policy, and encourage senior management to constantly work on a cybersecurity strategy, could deter businesses”]