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Operation Winter SHIELD: FBI issues call to arms for organizations to improve cybersecurity

Brett Leatherman, assistant director of the FBI's Cyber Division, introduces Operation Winter SHIELD. (Screenshot from FBI video)

By Danny Palmer

The FBI has launched Operation Winter SHIELD outlining ten actions which organizations should implement to help protect themselves, society and the state against cyber-attacks and malicious intrusions.

The Securing Homeland Infrastructure by Enhancing Layered Defense (SHIELD) cyber resilience campaign details actions which organizations can take to help detect, confront, and dismantle cyber threats.

“Winter SHIELD provides industry with a practical roadmap to better secure information technology (IT) and operational technology (OT) environments, hardening the nation’s digital infrastructure and reducing the attack surface,” the FBI said in an announcement on January 28.

Read more at Infosecurity Magazine

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