Anne Neuberger, the deputy national security adviser for cyber and emerging technology, is about to speak at the White House press briefing.
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Neuberger: "We want to take a moment to encourage organizations to be on guard for malicious cyber activity in advance of the holiday weekend. To be clear, we have no specific threat information or information regarding attacks this weekend, but what we do have is history."
Neuberger notes that history shows that hackers often target companies over holiday weekends, when security operations centers may be understaffed or otherwise unprepared.
Neuberger cites the recent CISA/FBI advisory: cisa.gov/news/2021/08/3…
Neuberger: “Organizations and individuals should be on alert now, because criminals sometimes lay their steps in advance and begin their planning.”
Neuberger asks corporate executives to "bring together your leadership teams" and conduct several mitigations before the holiday weekend, including applying patches, checking backups, encouraging key personnel to change their passwords, enabling MFA, and reviewing response plans.
Neuberger encourages security teams to proactively hunt across their networks for "initial signs of compromise or anything unusual on your network."
She also says everyone should be "extra vigilant" right now about phishing emails and malicious links.
She also says everyone should be "extra vigilant" right now about phishing emails and malicious links.
Q: Has Russia cracked down on ransomware gangs?
Neuberger: “The discussions with the Russians continue. As President Biden noted, he's looking for action with regard to addressing cyber activity, and we continue to look for that.”
Neuberger: “The discussions with the Russians continue. As President Biden noted, he's looking for action with regard to addressing cyber activity, and we continue to look for that.”
Q: Attribution of recently reported State Department hack?
Neuberger: No comment.
Neuberger: No comment.
Q: Given recent Bloomberg story about DOD pressuring Juniper to use backdoored encryption, what is the administration's policy on backdoors?
Neuberger: “That’s been an old story that’s been reported, and I think we’ve continuously noted that there isn’t substantiation for it.”
Neuberger: “That’s been an old story that’s been reported, and I think we’ve continuously noted that there isn’t substantiation for it.”
Q: To what do you attribute the recent decrease in ransomware attacks?
Neuberger: “We've noted the decrease in ransomware ... [There] could be a host of reasons for it. So we're noting that trend and we hope that that trend continues.”
Neuberger: “We've noted the decrease in ransomware ... [There] could be a host of reasons for it. So we're noting that trend and we hope that that trend continues.”
Q: What are you doing inside the government to prepare for potential incidents this weekend?
Neuberger: IC is on alert tracking threats, other agencies including CISA and FBI are "fully postured" to respond to incidents.
Neuberger: IC is on alert tracking threats, other agencies including CISA and FBI are "fully postured" to respond to incidents.
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