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From Directive to Deadline: Operating BOD 26-04 in the Real World

BOD 26-04 changes how federal agencies and FedRAMP providers handle vulnerabilities. It moves away from severity-based, 30-day patching and toward risk-based prioritization. In this webinar, Bob Costello (former CIO of CISA, strategic advisor to Nucleus Security, and Chief Digital and Information Officer at The Merlin Group) and Scott Kuffer (Co-founder and CPO at Nucleus Security) explain what the directive requires, why CISA built it on the SSVC decision-tree framework, and how to put it into practice.

Known Exploited Means Your Mitigation Is Next

Last month, the FBI arrested a suspect in its ongoing response to an attack on its job portal, allegedly carried out by criminal hacker and extortion group ShinyHunters. The agency said a contractor failed to apply a security patch to a third-party platform involved in the breach of its job portal, while Reuters reported that the contractor worked for Accenture and that the platform was Oracle PeopleSoft. (Fair warning: The Reuters article is behind a paywall.)