NSA and CISA Release Advisory on Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

Today, the National Security Agency NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA released a joint cybersecurity advisory CSA, NSA and CISA Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations, which provides the most common cybersecurity misconfigurations in large...

NSA and CISA Red and Blue Teams Share Top Ten Cybersecurity Misconfigurations

A plea for network defenders and software manufacturers to fix common problems. EXECUTIVE SUMMARY The National Security Agency NSA and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA are releasing this joint cybersecurity advisory CSA to highlight the most common cybersecurity...

Adopting guidance from the US National Cybersecurity Strategy to secure the Internet of Things

The recently published United States National Cybersecurity Strategy warns that many popular Internet of Things IoT devices are not sufficiently secure to protect against many of today’s common cybersecurity threats.1 The strategy also cautions that many of these IoT devices are difficult—or, in...

Preventing Web Application Access Control Abuse

SUMMARY The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and U.S. National Security Agency NSA are releasing this joint Cybersecurity Advisory to warn vendors, designers, and developers of web applications and...

CISA and Partners Release Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on Preventing Web Application Access Control Abuse

The Australian Signals Directorate’s Australian Cyber Security Centre ACSC, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency CISA, and the National Security Agency NSA are releasing a joint Cybersecurity Advisory CSA, Preventing Web Application Access Control Abuse, to warn vendors, designers...

Researchers Expose New Severe Flaws in Wago and Schneider Electric OT Products

Three security vulnerabilities have been disclosed in operational technology OT products from Wago and Schneider Electric. The flaws, per Forescout, are part of a broader set of shortcomings collectively called OT:ICEFALL , which now comprises a total of 61 issues spanning 13 different vendors...

Google Launches New Cybersecurity Initiatives to Strengthen Vulnerability Management

Google on Thursday outlined a set of initiatives aimed at improving the vulnerability management ecosystem and establishing greater transparency measures around exploitation. "While the notoriety of zero-day vulnerabilities typically makes headlines, risks remain even after they're known and fixe...

Maritime regulation. All Hands-on Deck!

TL;DR The regulation from the IMO has changed, you need to do more about cyber security. Key things to focus on: Start asking questions of your supply chain, of your own IT and OT teams Assess the security configuration per vessel – each are different Use Critical National Infrastructure controls...

Getting to Know Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion: Imperva

As a cybersecurity industry leader, it is both our responsibility and our pleasure to work with the National Cyber Security Alliance NCSA and ​​the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency CISA of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security as a 2021 Cybersecurity Awareness Month Champion and to join...

Cloud workload security: Should you worry about it?

Due to the increasing use of the cloud, organizations find themselves dealing with hybrid environments and nebulous workloads to secure. Containerization and cloud-stored data have provided the industry with a new challenge. And while you can try to make the provider of cloud data storage...

KasperskyOS — Secure Operating System released for IoT and Embedded Systems

Russian cyber security and antivirus vendor Kaspersky Lab has made available the much awaited KasperskyOS, a secure-by-design operating system based on Microkernel architecture which is specially designed for network devices, industrial control systems and the Internet of Things. The operating...

Eugene Kaspersky Unveils Plans for New Secure SCADA OS

Attacks against SCADA and industrial-control systems have become a major concern for private companies as well as government agencies, with executives and officials worried about the potential effects of a major compromise. Security experts in some circles have been warning about the possible...