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Being someone new to information and cyber security I was expecting a juicy technical account of what happen during the USA elections. I quickly hurried by moccachino and sandwich to sprint back upstairs to my office to read the JAR (Joint Analysis Report) prepared by the Department of Homeland Security and the FBI.

The report mainly highlights a lot of boilerplate recommendations that organizations should be aware of in protecting their networks. It contains mainly cyber security best practices and top mitigation practices. In addition, it lists a names aliases that were detected in executing the hacks.


This report maybe a political ploy? But it does contain some useful information.
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