Cybersecurity
US Cyber Official Urges Microsoft, Twitter to Boost Security
- CISA boss Jen Easterly flags account protection as key issue
- Suggests Apple as a role model to others on account protection
Jen Easterly
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A senior US cybersecurity official described adoption of some of Microsoft Corp. and Twitter Inc.’s security protocols as “disappointing” as part of a broadside against large technology companies’ approach to protecting user accounts.
Jen Easterly, director of the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency, said in a speech Monday that bad software and unsafe practices are facilitating ransomware attacks that are crippling the nation’s most essential services, spanning energy supply, food production, hospitals and schools.