April 4, 2024

National Security Agency Announces Dave Luber as Director of Cybersecurity

Dave Luber began as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) new Director of Cybersecurity on April 1. As the new Cybersecurity Director, he oversees NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate (CSD), whose critical mission is to prevent and eradicate cyber threats to the Department of Defense, National Security Systems, and the Defense Industrial Base.

March 7, 2024

NSA Releases Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies

The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing “Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies” to inform cloud customers about important security practices as they shift their data to cloud environments. The report is a compilation of ten Cybersecurity Information Sheets (CSIs), each on a different strategy. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins NSA as a partner on six of the ten strategies.

March 5, 2024

NSA Releases Maturity Guidance for the Zero Trust Network and Environment Pillar

The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today that details curtailing adversarial lateral movement within an organization’s network to access sensitive data and critical systems. The CSI, entitled “Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Network and Environment Pillar,” provides guidance on how to strengthen internal network control and contain network intrusions to a segmented portion of the network using Zero Trust principles.

Feb. 27, 2024

Russian Cyber Actors Use Compromised Routers to Facilitate Cyber Operations

FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) has joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other co-sealers to publish a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), “Russian Cyber Actors Use Compromised Routers to Facilitate Cyber Operations,” outlining observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and mitigation recommendations for EdgeRouter users and other network defenders.

Feb. 26, 2024

Russian Cyber Actors Target Cloud-Hosted Infrastructure

FORT MEADE, MD. – The National Security Agency (NSA) joins the UK National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC-UK) and other partners in releasing the Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), “SVR Cyber Actors Adapt Tactics for Initial Cloud Access.” The CSA outlines how Russia-based cyber actors are adapting their tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs) to infiltrate and access intelligence hosted in cloud environments as a growing number of targets store data in the cloud.

Feb. 20, 2024

National Security Agency Announces Retirement of Cybersecurity Director

FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) announces the retirement of Rob Joyce, the Director of Cybersecurity and the Deputy National Manager, National Security Systems; effective March 31, 2024.

Feb. 14, 2024

NSA Awards Authors of Study of Automated Attacks on New Webservers

The National Security Agency (NSA) Research Directorate recently selected “Uninvited Guests: Analyzing the Identity and Behavior of Certificate Transparency Bots,” as the winner of its 11th Annual Best Scientific Cybersecurity Paper Competition.

Feb. 7, 2024

Combatting Cyber Threat Actors Perpetrating Living Off the Land Intrusions

The National Security Agency (NSA) is proud to partner with the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA), the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), and the United Kingdom National Cyber Security Center (NSC-UK) on CISA’s Cybersecurity Technical Report (CTR) “Identifying and Mitigating Living Off the Land,” which provides guidance on defending against common living off the land (LOTL) techniques. This release follows a May 2023 joint Cybersecurity Advisory on LOTL techniques.

Jan. 3, 2024

Cybersecurity Speaker Series: Preparing for Post-Quantum

Cryptography is our first and last line of defense for the nation’s most sensitive systems. The quantum threat is real and it is imperative to modernize to protect these systems now. In the next video in the Cybersecurity Speaker Series released today, NSA’s Senior Cryptographic Authority, Dr. Adrian Stanger, and NSA’s Cryptographic Solutions Technical Director, Dr. William J. Layton, sat down with NSA’s Cybersecurity Collaboration Center Chief DIB Defense, Bailey Bickley, to discuss preparing for Post-Quantum.

Dec. 19, 2023

NSA Publishes 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review

The National Security Agency (NSA) published its 2023 Cybersecurity Year in Review today to share its recent cybersecurity successes and how it is working with partners to deliver on cybersecurity advances that enhance national security. This year’s report highlights NSA’s work with U.S government partners, foreign partners, and the Defense Industrial Base.