NCSC-UK Releases Guidance on Using MSP for Administering Cloud Services

The United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK has released a blog post, Using MSPs to administer your cloud services, that provides organizations security considerations for using a third party, such as a managed service provider MSP, to administer cloud services. Contracting with a...

Protecting Against Cyber Threats to Managed Service Providers and their Customers

Summary Tactical actions for MSPs and their customers to take today: • Identify and disable accounts that are no longer in use. • Enforce MFA on MSP accounts that access the customer environment and monitor for unexplained failed authentication. • Ensure MSP-customer contracts transparently...

The top 5 most routinely exploited vulnerabilities of 2021

A joint Cybersecurity Advisory, coauthored by cybersecurity authorities of the United States CISA, NSA, and FBI, Australia ACSC, Canada CCCS, New Zealand NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom NCSC-UK has detailed the top 15 Common Vulnerabilities and Exposures CVEs routinely exploited by malicious cybe...

2021 Top Routinely Exploited Vulnerabilities

CISA, the National Security Agency NSA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, the New Zealand National Cyber Security Centre NZ NCSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK have...

Iranian Government-Sponsored Actors Conduct Cyber Operations Against Global Government and Commercial Networks

Summary Actions to Take Today to Protect Against Malicious Activity Search for indicators of compromise. Use antivirus software. Patch all systems. Prioritize patching known exploited vulnerabilities. Train users to recognize and report phishing attempts. Use multi-factor authentication. Note: th...

2021 Trends Show Increased Globalized Threat of Ransomware

CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, the National Security Agency NSA, the Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, and the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre NCSC-UK have released a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA highlighting a global increase in sophisticated, high-impact...

Mitigating Log4Shell and Other Log4j-Related Vulnerabilities

Summary The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, the Federal Bureau of Investigation FBI, National Security Agency NSA, Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, Canadian Centre for Cyber Security CCCS, the Computer Emergency Response Team New Zealand CERT NZ, the New Zealand...