Cybersecurity Advisories & Technical Guidance

NSA Leverages its elite technical capability to develop advisories and mitigations on evolving cybersecurity threats.

Browse or search our repository of advisories, info sheets, tech reports, and operational risk notices listed below. Some resources have access requirements.

For a subset of cybersecurity products focused on telework and general network security for end users, view our Telework and Mobile Security Guidance page here.

ImageTitlePublication Date
DDD-190716-288-053.PDFAdvisory: Guidance For Vulnerabilities Affecting Modern Processors - Update 2 (May 2019)5/1/2019
DDD-190716-967-086.PDFInfo Sheet: Limiting ptrace on Production Linux Systems (May 2019)5/1/2019
DDD-190716-858-060.PDFAdvisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services On Legacy Versions of Windows (June 2019)6/1/2019
DDD-190716-296-078.PDFInfo Sheet: Defending Your DNS Infrastructure (June 2019)6/1/2019
DDD-190716-221-082.PDFInfo Sheet: Boot Security Modes Recommendations (June 2019)6/1/2019
Info Sheet: Top 10 Mitigation Strategies (March 2018)7/16/2019
Info Sheet: Update and Upgrade Software Immediately (August 2019)8/30/2019
Info Sheet: Segment Networks and Deploy Application-Aware Defenses (September 2019)8/30/2019
Info Sheet: Actively Manage Systems and Configurations (August 2019)8/30/2019
Info Sheet: Defend Privileges and Accounts (August 2019)8/30/2019
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