Tag: NSA
Recent cloud security guidance from CISA and the NSA offers a wealth of recommendations to help organizations reduce risk. This blog highlights key takeaways, provides further insights from CIS, and explores how utilizing cloud security posture management (CSPM) and cloud-native application protection program (CNAPP) solutions/services from Tenable can help. This past spring, Tenable reported that…
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This article was revised 5/15/17 at 9:12 a.m. (PDT) with updated recommendations. Over a dozen years ago, malware pioneer Dr. Peter Tippett coined the expression “virus disaster,” which describes the point at which more than 25 machines are infected on a single network as the “tipping point” for complete shutdown of a network.1 The new…
Read MoreIt’s been another banner year for leakers. In May, Wikileaks released the CIA’s Vault7 cyberwarfare documentation,1 and the Shadow Brokers released NSA exploit information, including the Windows EternalBlue2 exploit. EternalBlue was quickly weaponized into the WannaCry ransomware that pummeled the Internet for days. The Petya/NotPetya ransomware hitting Eastern Europe is also reportedly using EternalBlue to infect machines.…
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