American Hospital Association July 28, 2021
The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency and FBI, Australian Cyber Security Centre, and United Kingdom National Cyber Security Centre today released an advisory detailing the top 30 cyber vulnerabilities in 2020 and 2021.
“Organizations are encouraged to remediate or mitigate vulnerabilities as quickly as possible to reduce the risk of exploitation,” the advisory states. “Most can be remediated by patching and updating systems. Organizations that have not remediated these vulnerabilities should investigate for the presence of [indicators of compromise] and, if compromised, initiate incident response and recovery plans.”
John Riggi, AHA senior advisor for cybersecurity and risk, said, “This advisory is very important for a number of reasons. First, it clearly...