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CISA, FBI team up to bolster cyber awareness

The federal agencies have agreed to collaborate to help drive the nation’s cyber security endeavour.

user icon Charbel Kadib
Fri, 03 Sep 2021
CISA, FBI team up to bolster cyber awareness
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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) have published a cyber security advisory, aimed at flagging cyber risks and outlining mitigation strategies across both public and private sector organisations.

The advisory draws from observations on the timing of high impact ransomware attacks, prescribing broader remedies rather than reactive tartegies to specific threats.

Recommendations include engaging in pre-emptive threat hunting on organisations’ networks to search for signs of threat actors.

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Other basic protocols are also outlined, which explain the benefits of a proactive cyber security strategy.

Recommendations for fundamental best practices are also listed. These include implementing multi-factor authentication for remote access and administrative accounts.

“Ransomware continues to be a national security threat and a critical challenge, but it is not insurmountable,” Eric Goldstein, executive assistant director for cybersecurity at CISA, said.

“With our FBI partners, we continue to collaborate daily to ensure we provide timely, useful and actionable advisories that help industry and government partners of all sizes adopt defensible network strategies and strengthen their resilience.

“All organisations must continue to be vigilant against this ongoing threat.”

The advisory can be found on the new, whole-of-government ransomware website, StopRansomware.gov.

The release of the advisory comes just a week after representatives from Amazon, Apple, Google, IBM, Microsoft and other tech giants met with US President Joe Biden to formulate a new cyber security strategy, aimed at building resilience on the organisational and individual level.

Following the discussions, the Biden administration announced that the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) would collaborate with stakeholders to develop a new framework to improve the security and integrity of the technology supply chain.

The approach aims to establish guidelines for public and private entities, which includes the development of open-source software, with Coalition, Google, IBM, Microsoft, and Travelers committed to participating in the NIST-led initiative.

The White House also confirmed it would expand the Industrial Control Systems Cybersecurity Initiative to secure natural gas pipelines.

The technology companies also committed to rolling out independent initiatives.

Charbel Kadib

Charbel Kadib

News Editor – Defence and Security, Momentum Media

Prior to joining the defence and aerospace team in 2020, Charbel was news editor of The Adviser and Mortgage Business, where he covered developments in the banking and financial services sector for three years. Charbel has a keen interest in geopolitics and international relations, graduating from the University of Notre Dame with a double major in politics and journalism. Charbel has also completed internships with The Australian Department of Communications and the Arts and public relations agency Fifty Acres

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