Security News > 2021 > January > NSA Publishes Cybersecurity Year in Review Report
The United States National Security Agency has released its 2020 Cybersecurity Year in Review report, which summarizes the NSA Cybersecurity Directorate's first full year of operation.
The Cybersecurity Directorate remained true to its goal throughout 2020, the report claims, working to prevent and eradicate cyber threats through combining threat intelligence and cryptography knowledge with vulnerability analysis and defense operations.
"Drawing on lessons learned from the 2016 presidential election and the 2018 mid-term elections, NSA was fully engaged in whole-of-government efforts to protect the 2020 election from foreign interference and influence. Cybersecurity was a foundational component of NSA's overall election defense effort," the report reads.
Since the Directorate's creation, the NSA has provided 30 unique, timely and actionable cybersecurity products to alert the National Security System, DoD, and Defense Industrial Base network owners of cyber-threats.
Although the Cybersecurity Advisories were mainly destined for NSS, DoD, and DIB owners, the private sector in the United States and abroad could also leverage the intelligence to strengthen security posture, the NSA says.
"NSA also continues to discover and release cybersecurity vulnerabilities to private industry through an approved, intra-government process. For the past three years, vulnerability disclosures by NSA have trended upward, as the Agency commits to enabling the security of commercial technologies that the U.S. Government, our military, our businesses, and our citizens rely upon," the Agency notes.