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CISA and DHS urge baseline controls to reduce phishing, account takeover, and recovery risk

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CISA and DHS urged organizations and individuals to adopt baseline controls that reduce phishing, account takeover, vulnerability exposure, and incident-recovery risk. The guidance emphasizes strong passwords, multifactor authentication (MFA), and software updates as immediate actions with broad protection value. It also calls for logging, backups, and encryption to improve detection, resilience, and recovery across government and business environments.

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  1. 29.09.2025 15:00 2 articles · 9mo ago

    DHS and CISA launch Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025

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    The Department of Homeland Security and CISA announce the official beginning of Cybersecurity Awareness Month 2025 and urge citizens, government entities, businesses, and supply-chain partners to strengthen defenses with phishing reporting, strong passwords, multifactor authentication, software updates, system logging, backups, and encryption to help protect critical infrastructure and everyday services.

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