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**Informative References help inform how an organization may achieve the Core’s outcomes. Given the diversity of use cases this page allows the user to choose how to best consume Informative References.**

### Download CSF 2.0 Informative Reference in the Core

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### CSF 2.0 Implementation Examples 

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### Informative Reference Catalog

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