Security News > 2022 > February > CISA publishes list of free security tools for business protection

"CISA is super proud to announce the start of a new catalog of free resources available to those critical infrastructure owners and operators who would benefit from tools to help their security and resilience," said CISA director Jen Easterly in a statement.

The Register asked CISA to clarify the selection criteria for inclusion on the list.

The catalog webpage touches on the issue: "CISA applies neutral principles and criteria to add items and maintains sole and unreviewable discretion over the determination of items included. CISA does not attest to the suitability or effectiveness of these services and tools for any particular use case. CISA does not endorse any commercial product or service."

At some point, CISA intends to establish a process by which organizations can submit tools for inclusion in the catalog.

For each of these goals, there's a section in the CISA tools catalog.

Under the "Reducing the Likelihood of a Damaging Cyber Incident" section, for example, you can presently find 72 listings that point to CISA security testing resources, open source tools like PGP, ad blocking software, Google's safe browsing toolset, and the like.

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