April 15, 2024

NSA Publishes Guidance for Strengthening AI System Security

The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today, “Deploying AI Systems Securely: Best Practices for Deploying Secure and Resilient AI Systems.” The CSI is intended to support National Security System owners and Defense Industrial Base companies that will be deploying and operating AI systems designed and developed by an external entity.

April 9, 2024

NSA Issues Guidance for Maturing Data Security

The recommendations in the Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI), “Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Data Pillar,” are intended to ensure only those with authorization can access data. The capabilities outlined in the CSI integrate into a comprehensive Zero Trust (ZT) Framework.

April 4, 2024

National Security Agency Announces Dave Luber as Director of Cybersecurity

Dave Luber began as the National Security Agency’s (NSA) new Director of Cybersecurity on April 1. As the new Cybersecurity Director, he oversees NSA’s Cybersecurity Directorate (CSD), whose critical mission is to prevent and eradicate cyber threats to the Department of Defense, National Security Systems, and the Defense Industrial Base.

April 3, 2024

New NSA Display at BWI Honors SIGINT Support to Warfighters

The early 1950s saw the dedication of two new organizations headquartered less than 10 miles apart: NSA and the Friendship International Airport — now Baltimore/Washington International Thurgood Marshall Airport (BWI). Nearly eight decades later, the partnership between these organizations is expanding in a new way.

March 28, 2024

National Cryptologic Museum Hosts: A Conversation with Merryl Goldberg Ph.D.

The National Cryptologic Museum (NCM) welcomes Dr. Merryl Goldberg, Professor in the School of Arts at California State University San Marcos. Dr. Goldberg will discuss her journey through Moscow in the 1980's, her battle of wits with the KGB, and the cipher system she developed using coded music sheets. During the discussion Dr. Goldberg will play cryptographic tunes as a live demonstration of the coded music sheets.

March 18, 2024

Georgia Tech Wins NSA's Codebreaker Challenge for Third Consecutive Year

FORT MEADE, Md. – For the third consecutive year, the Georgia Institute of Technology (Georgia Tech)

March 12, 2024

Scouts Honored at National Cryptologic Museum's Annual Scout Day

“Best day of my life!” One Scout exclaimed as he left the National Cryptologic Museum’s (NCM) annual event on Saturday March 2nd, 2024. Rain couldn’t damper things for the scouts and their families. The event drew a near record number of attendees with more than 650 people coming through the doors of the NCM in just six hours.

March 7, 2024

NSA Releases Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies

The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing “Top Ten Cloud Security Mitigation Strategies” to inform cloud customers about important security practices as they shift their data to cloud environments. The report is a compilation of ten Cybersecurity Information Sheets (CSIs), each on a different strategy. The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) joins NSA as a partner on six of the ten strategies.

March 5, 2024

NSA Releases Maturity Guidance for the Zero Trust Network and Environment Pillar

The National Security Agency (NSA) is releasing a Cybersecurity Information Sheet (CSI) today that details curtailing adversarial lateral movement within an organization’s network to access sensitive data and critical systems. The CSI, entitled “Advancing Zero Trust Maturity Throughout the Network and Environment Pillar,” provides guidance on how to strengthen internal network control and contain network intrusions to a segmented portion of the network using Zero Trust principles.

Feb. 27, 2024

Russian Cyber Actors Use Compromised Routers to Facilitate Cyber Operations

FORT MEADE, Md. – The National Security Agency (NSA) has joined the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) and other co-sealers to publish a Cybersecurity Advisory (CSA), “Russian Cyber Actors Use Compromised Routers to Facilitate Cyber Operations,” outlining observed tactics, techniques, and procedures (TTPs), indicators of compromise (IOCs), and mitigation recommendations for EdgeRouter users and other network defenders.