CISA Red Team Simulates Cyberattacks on Critical Infrastructure, Reveals Security Gaps in One Organization

CISA's red team assessments revealed significant security vulnerabilities in two critical infrastructure organizations, with one failing to detect a full domain-level compromise. The incident highlighted issues such as misconfigured Active Directory settings, cleartext credentials, and inadequate security coordination, underscoring the importance of robust incident response processes.

The U.S. Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has published the results of two red team assessments it conducted simultaneously against two critical infrastructure organizations, using what it described as similar tradecraft while recording sharply different defensive outcomes.

Both organizations were fully compromised at the domain level, and in both, the red team also

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