At least they care enough to ask. Four members of the Federal Financial Institutions Council—the Office the Comptroller of the Currency, the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System, the Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation and the National Credit Union Administration—want to know if financial institutions find the Council’s cybersecurity assessment tool too burdensome.

It’s not an altogether odd question, as organizations deploying their own cybersecurity tools and procedures in response to increased regulatory pressures have discovered.