Security News > 2020 > January > Iranian Cyberattacks: 10 Must-Have Defenses

Organizations should long ago have put in place multifactor authentication and a breach response plan and continued to actively shore up any defenses that are lagging.

Here's the U.S. government once again warning organizations that support critical infrastructure to do the basics.

At last month's Black Hat Europe 2019, Daniel Cuthbert, global head of security research for Banco Santander, warned in a closing panel discussion that organizations are still failing to get the basics right.

Given the escalated threat of online retaliation by Iran, who's most at risk? "Our current assessment is that organizations in the financial, defense, government, and oil and gas sectors are the most likely targets for retaliation activity," cybersecurity firm CrowdStrike tells me, emphasizing that it has yet to see any such attacks.

Pierson says that advice continues to apply for any organization at risk from retaliatory Iranian cyberattacks.

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