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Cyber

CISA Issues Binding Directive To Federal Agencies To Patch Exploited Vulnerabilities

By Cal Biesecker

Wednesday, November 3rd, 2021

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CISA Issues Binding Directive To Federal Agencies To Patch Exploited Vulnerabilities

Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency. Photo: DHS

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) on Wednesday released a catalog of known exploited network vulnerabilities and ordered federal agencies to mitigate these security risks within specific timelines. The Department of Homeland Security agency also hopes that private sector entities take heed and use the catalog to patch these vulnerabilities on their networks. “I think is really groundbreaking in that for the first time this is really giving timelines to remediate those specific vulnerabilities that we know have been…

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