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Folks, cybersecurity is broken. Security leaders are drowning in data. We can tell you how many vulnerabilities there are. We can tell you how many patches we've deployed. We can recite chapter and verse on the latest threats. Yet, with all this information at our disposal, most of us struggle to answer the question “How secure, or at risk, are we?" with a high degree of confidence.

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CISA warns that foreign threat actors from China and Iran are routinely targeting unpatched vulnerabilities across government agencies and U.S.-based networks.

Background

On September 14 and September 15, the Cybersecurity Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) published two separate alerts detailing malicious activity from foreign threat actors: