DHS CISA in a Panic Over Chinese Penetration of Telecommunication Companies

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Posted on 12/28/2024 3:29:42 AM PST by bitt

The Department of Homeland Security Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (DHS-CISA) released an issuance entitled “Mobile Communications Best Practice Guidance” on December 18, 2024.

From the classic cybersecurity practitioner’s perspective, it was full of technical guidance on how to make the mobile computing environment secure.

Having been part of the combined, inter-agency response team for several broad enterprise breaches over the past 20 years, my interest was piqued.

These documents take months and months of analysis, staffing, and inter-agency approval before publishing. Reading through the DHS CISA document, there were several flags that began to jump out at me.

First, the guidance was complex from even the cybersecurity expert’s point of view, much less the average, typical user of mobile computing and smartphones.

Second, the document did not reference any of the “Typhoon” series of Chinese intrusions that were first revealed by Microsoft in May of 2023.

And third, after years of lecturing everyone on the merits and virtues of 2FA (Two Factor Authentication) there was a sentence that belied panic.

The lead was buried in the third point of guidance: “Do not use SMS as a second factor for authentication.”

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