Top 10 Cybersecurity Facepalms: Unmasking the Grand Misconfigurations of Big Businesses

The NSA and CISA have unveiled the top ten “Common Network Misconfigurations” making organizations a hacker’s paradise. A buffet of default configurations, sloppy patch management, and flimsy multifactor authentication are served up as an irresistible invite for cybercriminals. It’s high time companies stopped cloud gazing and started getting their cyber house in order.

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Looks like the NSA and CISA have spilled the beans on the top ten cybersecurity misconfigurations that make large organizations an easy target for hackers. It’s a bit like a recipe book for disaster: Just add one part default configurations, a dash of poor patch management, and finish off with a sprinkle of weak multifactor authentication, and voila, you've got yourself a prime target for cybercriminals. Now, if only these organizations would take their heads out of the cloud (literally) and get their cyber house in order!

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