UK, US, & Allies Release Cybersecurity Guidelines to Secure Edge Devices
LONDON, UK, 5th February 2025 – Cybersecurity agencies in the UK, US, Australia, Canada and New Zealand have published joint recommendations to strengthen edge devices.
Edge devices are defined to include routers, smart home appliances, IoT devices, sensors, and cameras as they form the gateway between local networks and the Internet.
The recommendations stress the importance of robust logging and forensic capabilities being built in by default to allow network defenders deal more effectively with harmful attempts.
The publication sheds light on the joint focus on cyber threats targeting edge devices which are becoming more organized and advanced.
According to Ollie Whitehouse, the Technical Director of the United Kingdom’s National Cyber Security Centre,
“With an unprecedented onslaught of crews breaching network devices globally, our new guidance sets what we collectively see as the standard required to meet the contemporary threat.”
He went on to state the need to assault cyber attackers as well as provide post-intrusion investigation tools for the defenders. The recommendations stress that robust and secure logging and forensic capabilities should be built into the devices and activated by default.
This strategy focuses on helping network defenders to defend organizational networks in advance. This publication is part of a set of releases by international cyber security bodies which illustrate the heightened need to secure edge devices in the face of existing threats.
This effort is meant to be a global response to the changes of the cyber threat landscape, and to advocate for greater security in today’s core network infrastructure devices. Manufacturers and users can now proactively contribute to a secure cyberspace by implementing these guidelines.
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