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The Federal Agency Most Hackers Wish You'd Never Heard Of In January 2024, CISA — the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency — issued an emergency directive after threat actors exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti VPN products to infiltrate multiple federal agencies. The directive gave agencies 48 hours to disconnect affected devices.
Most Organizations Read CISA's Advice — Then Ignore the Hard Parts In 2023, the City of Dallas got hit with Royal ransomware. Services went down. Police dispatch systems broke. Recovery took weeks and cost millions. The attack vector? The kind of basic intrusion that CISA cybersecurity guidelines have warned
In January 2024, CISA disclosed that a threat actor had exploited vulnerabilities in Ivanti Connect Secure products to breach the agency's own systems. Let that sink in. The federal agency responsible for defending U.S. critical infrastructure got hit. If CISA itself isn't immune, your organization
In January 2024, CISA issued Emergency Directive 24-01 after a nation-state threat actor compromised Microsoft's corporate email environment. Federal agencies scrambled to audit their own Microsoft tenants. The directive wasn't theoretical — it was an emergency response to a real breach affecting the backbone of government communications.
