NSA and CISA Reveal Top 10 Cybersecurity Misconfigurations to Fix

NSA and CISA revealed the top 10 most common cybersecurity misconfigurations found in large organizations, based on assessments by their red and blue teams.

The misconfigurations make networks vulnerable to exploitation by threat actors for access, lateral movement, and targeting sensitive data.

The top 10 misconfigurations are related to software defaults, privilege separation, monitoring, patching, authentication, and more.

NSA and CISA recommend mitigations like removing defaults, implementing access controls, automating patching, and restricting privileges.

Organizations are advised to test their security programs against ATT&CK techniques used to exploit the misconfigurations.