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Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) is the U.S. Department of Homeland Security agency for reducing cyber and physical risks to critical infrastructure and federal civilian networks. Created by the 2018 CISA Act, it works with government and industry, publishes alerts and guidance, and coordinates assistance during significant incidents. Its direct federal-network role chiefly covers the Federal Civilian Executive Branch, including .gov; private-sector engagement is often voluntary or sector-specific.
Practitioners use CISA advisories and the Known Exploited Vulnerabilities catalog to prioritize patching where exploitation has been observed, and consult applicable directives and incident-response guidance. CISA supports vulnerability reporting and promotes controls such as multifactor authentication, logging, and tested recovery. A CISA alert is an actionable risk signal, not proof every organization is affected; teams should verify product, version, exposure, and obligations.
The FOCAL plan outlines baselines to synchronize cybersecurity priorities and policies across, as well as within, agencies.
Fears over chained attacks affecting EOL product The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) just added the latest Ivanti weakness to its Known Exploited Vulnerability (KEV) catalog, a situation sure to annoy some – given that it's yet another path traversal flaw.…
Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret' Software suppliers who ship buggy, insecure code need to stop enabling cyber criminals who exploit those vulnerabilities to rob victims, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued.…
Write better code, urges Jen Easterly. And while you're at it, give crime gangs horrible names like 'Evil Ferret' Software developers who ship buggy, insecure code are the real villains in the cyber crime story, Jen Easterly, boss of the US government's Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, has argued.…
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Agency (CISA) has added five flaws to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities (KEV) catalog, among which is a remote code execution (RCE) flaw impacting Apache HugeGraph-Server. [...]
The US Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency is trying to eradicate cross-site scripting vulnerabilities
The latest Secure by Design alert from CISA outlines recommended actions security teams should implement to reduce the prevalence of cross-site scripting vulnerabilities in software.
Experts Warn Federal Cyber Strategies Increasingly Lack Accompanying ResourcesThe U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has released a new plan to further align federal cybersecurity operations that experts say will likely face significant implementation roadblocks due to a lack of funding, leadership buy-in and technical resources.
CISA and the FBI urged tech companies to review their software and eliminate cross-site scripting (XSS) vulnerabilities before shipping. [...]
CISA project will align cybersecurity polices across the Federal Civilian Executive Branch of US government
CISA has ordered U.S. federal agencies to secure their systems against a recently patched Windows MSHTML spoofing zero-day bug exploited by the Void Banshee APT hacking group. [...]