Cybersecurity Dive October 16, 2023
Common mistakes including poor credential management, weak MFA and lackluster patching continue to harm large enterprises.
There’s a systemic weakness in large organizations’ network infrastructure: common problems go unrepaired, the National Security Agency and Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said earlier this month in an advisory.
The pleas from federal cyber authorities “for network defenders and software manufacturers to fix common problems” underscores the importance of secure-by-design principles, CISA said.
The ten most-common misconfigurations reads like a list of basic standards and best practices, according to cybersecurity experts and analysts. These weaknesses are abundant in enterprises with mature cybersecurity postures, according to CISA.
The top 10 cybersecurity misconfigurations in large organizations includes:
- Default software and application configurations
- Improper user...
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