Cyber Resilience Act

How does the PSTI compare with the CRA?

Threat Intelligence

XZ Opensource Supply Chain Threat

On March the 29th a Microsoft engineer accidently discovered a backdoor that had been intentionally added to XZ utils software project, an open-source data compression utility that is used in almost all Linux distributions. The backdoor had been deliberately planted by a developer in the project. This developer had joined the project two years earlier and over the course of the two years earned the trust of the project maintainer by contributing bug fixes and code improvements to the project. Leveraging this trust and having been given the ability to directly approve code changes to the project the developer inserted the backdoor in February of this year.

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EU Cyber Acts Conference – Brussels

Our CTO and CEO attended the EU Cyber Acts conference on 12th and 13th March in Brussels. The conference was well attended by delegates across Europe. There were presentations by experts in many fields and panel sessions with key EU stakeholders.

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European Cybersecurity Competence Centre (ECCC) DEP Info Day in Bucharest

Our CEO had the pleasure of attending the ECCC info day in Bucharest. An extremely informative session and valuable networking opportunity. She also had the opportunity to pitch our idea for CRA Compliance Tools to a large EU audience and receive some great feedback.

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Cyber Target Operating Model

In today's fast-paced business environment, organizations constantly strive for efficiency, agility, and sustainable growth. Achieving these goals often involves reevaluating and optimizing their operational structures. It is good practice for any organisation to have a detailed operating model.

Cyber Resilience Act

What is the Cyber Resilience Act?

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a first of its kind legislation that provides a baseline cybersecurity standard for products with digital elements within the European Union. The CRA aims to address two main problems identified in products with digital elements:

Cyber Resilience Act

Cyber Resilience Act Product Categories

The Cyber Resilience Act (CRA) is a new legislation that will be enacted in the EU in 2024. The CRA aims to create a baseline cybersecurity standard for products with digital elements sold in the EU. This will reduce cybersecurity vulnerabilities in products being sold in the EU and consequently reduce the number of cybersecurity incidents that leads to data loss/theft, cybercrime such as ransomware attacks or cyberespionage.

Threat Intelligence

The Russian Threat to Undersea Infrastructure

Since the Russian invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, NATO and the European Union have continued to support Ukraine with humanitarian and military assistance in its resistance to the invasion. As a result European countries including Ireland are viewed as legitimate targets by Russia for offensive cyber security operations.

Threat Intelligence

Ransomware Situational Report

On the 8th of November the Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Financial Services (“ICBC FS”) a wholly owned subsidiary of Industrial and Commercial Bank of China Limited (“ICBC”) headquartered in New York notified the Securities Industry and Financial Markets Association in New York that it was experiencing a ransomware attack.