CISA’s Goldstein promotes four ‘quite achievable’ steps for companies under cyber performance goals

CISA executive assistant director for cyber Eric Goldstein is pointing to four of the agency’s cross-sector performance goals as examples of steps organizations should prioritize for quick improvements in their cybersecurity posture.

“While the full list of goals may seem long, particularly for small organizations, they are quite achievable,” Goldstein said in a July 21 blog post.

“For example,” he wrote, “some straightforward and essential practices you can start implementing today” include changing default passwords, implementing phishing-resistant multifactor authentication,...