CISA sunsets 10 emergency directives thanks to evolution of exploited vulnerabilities catalog

Ten emergency directives issued by the U.S.’s top cybersecurity agency have been retired after officials determined they were redundant thanks in part to a widely used catalog of exploited vulnerabilities. 

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) said on Thursday that the 10 directives being retired were issued between 2019 and 2024, spanning both the Trump and Biden administrations. 

The agency typically issues emergency directives to force federal civilian agencies to patch specific vulnerabilities or stop some activity being exploited by threat actors. 

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