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CISA's recent red team assessment of a Federal Civilian Executive Branch (FCEB) organization reveals important lessons for strengthening cybersecurity defenses. The team achieved full domain access and compromised tier zero assets without detection, highlighting critical areas for improvement. Key takeaways from the assessment include: • Effective patch management is essential • Secure credential storage prevents unauthorized access • Defense-in-depth strategies provide multiple layers of protection • Comprehensive log management enables rapid threat response • Behavior-based detection outperforms traditional IOC-based approaches This serves as a valuable learning opportunity for organizations to enhance their security posture. By implementing robust, multi-layered security measures, we can better protect critical infrastructure and sensitive data. Link to article: https://runsafe.ly/4d2gvVB #CISA #cybersecurityawareness #SecurityFirst

Let's talk about proactive cybersecurity and its crucial role in protecting our critical infrastructure. CISA's recent assessment of a federal organization reveals vulnerabilities that persist despite conventional security measures. While patch management and threat detection are essential, they're often reactive strategies. True resilience comes from anticipating and neutralizing threats before they materialize. This means hardening systems at the source. By shifting our focus to proactive measures, we can create a more secure foundation for our critical systems. #CISA #cybersecurityawareness #SecurityFirst

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Sophos XDR Excels in MITRE ATT&CK Evaluations: Enterprise “Attackers are relentless to innovate techniques to bypass trusted security defenses. This assessment from MITRE helps security buyers evaluate the effectiveness against today’s threats,” said Simon Reed, chief research and scientific officer at Sophos. Read More: https://lnkd.in/dnBWjA-t #Sophos #MITRE #Security #technologyintegrator

Foreign nation-state cyber adversaries continually adapt and evolve their tactics to bypass even the most sophisticated defenses deployed by organizations. This year, the focus has shifted from exploiting routers to compromising edge protection devices, highlighting the persistent and agile nature of these threats. MITRE, a company renowned for its commitment to cybersecurity excellence, found itself facing the harsh reality of this evolving landscape when it experienced a breach in one of its research and prototyping networks.   The breach, discovered in April 2024, was a wake-up call for MITRE, prompting an immediate and thorough investigation by its security team. Despite following best practices and industry guidelines, the adversaries successfully exploited vulnerabilities in MITRE's Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) and bypassed multi-factor authentication, gaining access to the network's VMware infrastructure. MITRE's response involved isolating affected systems, launching forensic analysis, and implementing remediation measures to contain the breach and minimize the impact on ongoing projects.   MITRE's experience underscores the importance of transparency, collaboration, and continuous improvement in cybersecurity efforts. Through sharing their incident response efforts, observed attack techniques, and recommendations for detection and hardening networks, MITRE aims to empower others in the cybersecurity community to bolster their defenses against similar threats. Additionally, MITRE remains committed to advancing threat-informed defense practices globally, leveraging initiatives like MITRE ATT&CK® and the Center for Threat-Informed Defense to drive collective efforts in combating cyber threats effectively.   #infosec #informationsecurity #cybersecurity #cybersec Source: https://lnkd.in/gCAbZHyc

🔒 Advanced Cyber Threats Impact Even the Most Prepared! 🔒 MITRE (50-plus-year history of developing standards and tools used by the broad cybersecurity community) was subject to an intrusion into one of their research and prototyping networks in April 2024. This cyber incident shows once more time that it is not possible to be completely immune from cybersecurity threats - even for a company that strives to maintain the highest cybersecurity possible in line with best practices. 🛡️ In the below post, you may find: 🛡️ 1️⃣ Incident Overview: Starting with exploitation one of their Virtual Private Networks (VPNs) through two Ivanti Connect Secure zero-day vulnerabilities, and passing their multi-factor authentication using session hijacking. 2️⃣ Observed ATT&CK Techniques: Providing some of the initial corresponding ATT&CK tactics, techniques, and procedures. 3️⃣ Incident Response Efforts: Including Containment, Governance, Analysis, Remediation, Communication and Enhanced Monitoring. 4️⃣ Best Practice Tips for Detection / Hardening Your Network: Including Anomaly Detection, Behavior Analysis , Threat Intelligence Feeds, Strong Authentication, Regular Patch Management, Network Segmentation, Least Privilege Access etc. For details, please the below - as a good example of Lessons Learned exercise for cybersecurity community!

Even Cybersecurity Experts Get Hacked: MITRE Shares Lessons Learned! MITRE, a leader in the field, recently got hacked by an adversary that exploited zero-day vulnerabilities in their Ivanti VPN. But instead of hiding under the desk, they're doing something awesome: sharing exactly what happened, how they faced it and how we all could avoid it in the future. Here's the TL; DR: Threat Actor exploited 2 Zero-Day vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPN, then leverage session hijacking in bypassing their multi-factor authentication, moved laterally and deeply using a compromised administrator account and implemented a combination of sophisticated backdoor and webshells. MITRE directly cut off all known access to the threat actor and brought in third-party Digital Forensics Incident Response teams to perform an in-depth analysis alongside their in-house experts. They have contained the attack and sharing what they've found (including how YOU can avoid a similar fate). This is gold for anyone in cybersecurity! The Article is highlighting the importance of things like: - Observed ATT&CK Techniques in the incident. - Incident Response Efforts including (Containment, Containment, Analysis, Remediation, Communication and Enhanced Monitoring) - Best Practice Tips for helping with detecting the specific TTPs observed in their incident - Best Practice Tips on Hardening Your Networks - Next Steps and Call to Action #mitre #incident #adversary #hacked #zero_day

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Coro leverages the MITRE ATT&CK framework to enhance visibility into threats, collaborate effectively, and continuously improve security measures. Learn how this helps us protect you from cyber-attacks. #Infosec #MITREATTACK #CyberProtection