Security News > 2022 > February > CISA compiles list of free cybersecurity tools and services

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency has published a list of free cybersecurity services and tools to help organizations increase their security capabilities and better defend against cyberattacks.

While the set is neither comprehensive nor impervious to change, it aims to mature an entity's cybersecurity risk management when combined with baseline security practices for a strong cybersecurity program.

The list is a mix of services from CISA, open-source utilities, and free tools and services from organizations in the public and private sectors.

Once the above measures are implemented, CISA says that organizations can move to use the free tools and services it compiled to improve their cybersecurity risk management.

The list includes 97 tools and services from the open-source space as well as from CISA's repository and various organizations relevant to the cybersecurity sector: Microsoft, Google, VMware, IBM, Mandiant, Cisco, Secureworks, Cloudflare, Center for Internet Security, CrowdStrike, Tenable, AT&T Cybersecurity, Kali Linux Project, Splunk, SANS, and Palo Alto Networks.

CISA agency highlights that the listed tools and services are not guaranteed to be suitable "For any particular use case."

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