JCDC’s Collaborative Efforts Enhance Cybersecurity for the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC, enabled proactive coordination and information sharing to bolster cybersecurity ahead of the 2024 Olympic and Paralympic Games in Paris. Recognizing the potential for cyber threats...

CISA, FBI, NSA, and Treasury Release Guidance on OSS in OT/ICS Environments

Today, CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the National Security Agency, and the U.S. Department of the Treasury released guidance on improving the security of open source software OSS in operational technology OT and industrial control systems ICS. In alignment with CISA’s recently releas...

CISA Releases Fact Sheet on Effort to Revise the National Cyber Incident Response Plan (NCIRP)

Today, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a fact sheet on the effort to revise the National Cyber Incident Response Plan NCIRP. Through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC, CISA will work to ensure that the updated NCIRP addresses significant changes in poli...

CISA Releases JCDC Remote Monitoring and Management (RMM) Cyber Defense Plan

Today, CISA released the Remote Monitoring and Management RMM Cyber Defense Plan, the first proactive Plan developed by industry and government partners through the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC. This plan addresses systemic risks facing the exploitation of RMM software. Cyber threat...

JCDC Announces 2023 Planning Agenda

Today, the Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC announced its 2023 Planning Agenda. This release marks a major milestone in the continued evolution and maturation of the collaborative’s planning efforts. JCDC’s Planning Agenda brings together government and private sector partners to develop an...

Microsoft collaborates with Tenable to support federal cybersecurity efforts

On May 12, 2021, the White House issued Presidential Executive Order EO 14028 to establish cybersecurity as a national priority.1 As part of this effort, the White House has called for greater public and private sector collaboration to address the evolving threats facing federal agencies. In the...

Hacktivists Expanding DDoS Attacks as Part of International Cyber Warfare Strategy

In April 2022 it was reported that pro-Russian hacktivist group, KILLNET, carried out a series of Distributed Denial of Service DDoS attacks against a number of websites including the United Nations UN, The Organization for Security and Cooperation OSCE an organization founded in Finland, and oth...

Broadcom Software Discloses APT Actors Deploying Daxin Malware in Global Espionage Campaign

Broadcom Software—an industry member of CISA’s Joint Cyber Defense Collaborative JCDC—uncovers an advanced persistent threat APT campaign against select governments and other critical infrastructure targets in a publication titled Daxin: Stealthy Backdoor Designed for Attacks Against Hardened...