Brian Krebs

I am quoted on the role of #socialmedia in promoting #disinformation and #conspiracytheories during #elections2024 and beyond along several #cybersecurity and #informationwarfare experts in Peter Suciu's Forbes article. I discuss the role of foreign actors, why these abuses are not going away after the #elections are over, and what makes the social media environment prone to manipulation and #polarization. #characterassassination #propaganda #Russia #China #politics #GOP #Republicans #Democrats #Trump #Biden #Harris #KamalaHarris #JDVance #cybersecurity #media #bigtech #hitech #infosec #informationsecurity #cyberwarfare #polarization #lawandorder #societyandculture

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After the release of National Security Memorandum 22 (NSM-22) by U.S. President Joe Biden in April, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), acting as the National Coordinator for critical infrastructure security and resilience, will craft the 2025 National Infrastructure #RiskManagement Plan (National Plan). The plan will utilize federal tools, resources, and authorities to mitigate national-level risks, including those affecting #criticalinfrastructure sectors. #CISA will collaborate with partners and other Sector Risk Management Agencies (SRMAs) throughout the year to develop this essential document. “Building off the priorities of NSM-22, the 2025 National Plan will articulate how the U.S. government will collaborate with partners to identify and manage national risk. This will be an evolution from the 2013 National Plan which described risk management as ‘the cornerstone’ to strengthening critical infrastructure #security and #resilience,” Jen Easterly, director at CISA, wrote in a Wednesday blog post. “Eleven years later, the spirit of this concept holds true; yet it must evolve due to pervasive #vulnerabilities and an elevated #threatlandscape, which could lead to cascading regional and national consequences.” https://lnkd.in/gtAWUh9M

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) released its federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) Operational Cybersecurity Alignment (FOCAL) Plan on Monday. As the operational lead for federal cybersecurity, the agency has oriented the FOCAL Plan actions toward ‘operational cybersecurity,’ covering daily activities and processes organizations use to defend their data and information systems. Such activities may include managing assets and #vulnerabilities, communicating and sharing #cybersecurity information, planning and architecting future capabilities, and investigating and responding to cybersecurity incidents “Federal government data and systems interconnect and are always a target for our adversaries. FCEB agencies need to confront this threat in a unified manner and reduce risk proactively,” Jeff Greene, CISA’s executive assistant director for #cybersecurity, said in a media statement. “The actions in the #FOCALplan orient and guide #FCEB agencies toward effective and collaborative #operationalcybersecurity and will build #resilience. In collaboration with our partner agencies, CISA is modernizing federal agency cybersecurity.” https://lnkd.in/gddQErpU

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The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published Thursday a cybersecurity advisory (CSA) based on its ‘SilentShield’ #redteam assessment conducted against a federal civilian executive branch (FCEB) organization in early 2023. The CSA aims to aid executives, leaders, and #network defenders across various organizations in enhancing their #cybersecurity measures. It provides insights into refining #detection, response, and hunting capabilities to mitigate risks of exploitation and compromise by advanced persistent threat (APT) actors. The #SilentShield advisory identified four key lessons across the 16 findings from its SilentShield red team assessment. The agency highlighted that the assessed organization lacked robust controls to prevent and detect malicious activities. Specifically, the organization’s perimeter network needed to be more adequately separated from its internal network, failing to limit outbound traffic effectively. https://lnkd.in/g83ktXhF

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Of possible interest - Grid-sabotaging "Terrorgrams" appearing on the Telegram social media site and elsewhere potentially reflect "a rising trend of far-right extremists targeting power infrastructure in an attempt to sow chaos. The most ambitious of these saboteurs hope to usher in societal collapse, paving the way for the violent overthrow of the US government, according to researchers who monitor far-right communities." #domesticterrorism #electricgrid #energyinfrastructure https://lnkd.in/gZXtndKT

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