NSA Cybersecurity Advisories & 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.

To read our complete series on protecting DoD microelectronics from adversary influence, view our DoD Microelectronics Guidance page.
 

ImageTitlePublication Date
DDD-200723-941-003.PDFAdvisory: Protect Operational Technologies and Control Systems against Cyber Attacks (July 2020)7/23/2020
DDD-190716-858-060.PDFAdvisory: Patch Remote Desktop Services On Legacy Versions of Windows (June 2019)6/1/2019
DDD-200716-666-047.PDFAdvisory: Patch Critical Vulnerability in Windows Servers using DNS Server Role (July 2020)7/16/2020
DDD-191030-204-002.PDFAdvisory: Patch Critical Vulnerability In Atlassian Confluence (October 2019)10/30/2019
DDD-190716-553-054.PDFAdvisory: Mitigations for Key Reinstallation Attacks Against WI-FI Protected Access II (WPA2) (October 2017)10/18/2017
DDD-191007-044-022.PDFAdvisory: Mitigating Recent VPN Vulnerabilities (October 2019)10/7/2019
DDD-200110-416-020.PDFAdvisory: Mitigate CVE201919781 Critical Vulnerability in Citrix ADC (January 2020)1/10/2020
DDD-200528-111-002.PDFAdvisory: Exim Mail Transfer Agent Actively Exploited by Russian GRU Cyber Actors (May 2020)5/28/2020
DDD-190716-893-052.PDFAdvisory: Drupal Unauthenticated Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (April 2018)4/19/2018
DDD-190716-451-051.PDFAdvisory: DotNetNuke Remote Code Execution Vulnerability (January 2018)1/9/2018
DDD-200114-032-024.PDFAdvisory: Critical Crypto Vulnerability in Microsoft Windows 10 (January 2020)1/14/2020
DDD-190925-139-001.PDFAdvisory: Continued Use Of Adobe Flash Invites Compromise (September 2019)9/25/2019
DDD-190716-083-049.PDFAdvisory: CISCO Updates Critical Remote Code Execution Vulnerability for ASA (February 2018)2/6/2018
DDD-190716-199-050.PDFAdvisory: CISCO Smart Install Protocol Misuse (August 2017)8/7/2017
DDD-200716-080-004.PDFAdvisory: APT29 Targets COVID-19 Vaccine Development (July 2020)7/16/2020
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Additional Documents

Some guidance is protected and requires use of a DoD Common Access Card (CAC) to access. Visit https://cyber.mil/nsa/cybersecurity-advisories-and-technical-guidance/ to access the following and other protected documents:

  • Avoid Dangers of Wildcard TLS Certificates and the ALPACA Technique (FOUO version)
  • Protecting VSAT Communications
  • Quantum Security of Symmetric Cryptography and Hash Functions: A Review
  • Securing AWS S3
  • Security Considerations for Office 365 Government Customers