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The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and its partners recently issued helpful guidance for entities that have limited resources to address cyber threats. The guidance, entitled “Mitigating Cyber Threats with Limited Resources: Guidance for Civil Society,” is targeted to assist civil society—“nonprofit, advocacy, cultural, faith-based, academic, think tanks, journalist, dissident, and diaspora organizations, communities…

The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) released a Joint Cybersecurity Advisory on October 11, 2023, urging companies (particularly those in the critical infrastructure sector) to take steps to mitigate cyber threats for AvosLocker Ransomware.

The Advisory urges companies to:

  • Restrict Remote Desktop Protocol
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    The Cybersecurity & Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), in tandem with the FBI and National Security Agency, issued a Cybersecurity Advisory on January 22, 2022, to warn organizations, and especially critical infrastructure operators, to be on heightened alert that Russian state-sponsored cyber operations may again use the tensions with the U.S. to attack U.S. companies.

    The…

    While the federal government grapples with multiple pieces of legislation aimed at sharing information on cyber threats, it is not surprising that states will now get into the fray.

    Governor Terry McAuliffe of Virginia announced this week the creation of Virginia’s Information Sharing and Analysis Organization (ISAO), touted as a collaborative effort of the Virginia…

    In the wake of huge data breaches in the last year, multiple pieces of legislation have been introduced in the past few months relating to cybersecurity and the sharing of information between public and private entities in order to combat increasingly sophisticated cyberattacks.

    Yesterday, the U.S. House of Representatives passed bipartisan legislation (the Protecting Cyber…

    In an effort to get the best and brightest together to combat cyber risks, President Obama issued a Data Sharing Executive Order last month, which seeks a commitment and cooperation from the private sector to share information on cyber threats with one another and with the federal government in order to effectively combat hacking incidents…