Organizations Urged to Replace Discontinued Edge Devices
Edge devices that are no longer supported have been targeted in attacks by state-sponsored hackers, the US says. The post Organizations Urged to Replace Discontinued Edge Devices appeared first on SecurityWeek.
US and UK government agencies this week warned of the risks posed by discontinued edge devices, urging organizations to replace them as soon as possible.
Edge devices include firewalls, IoT, load balancers, network security appliances, routers, switches, wireless access points, and other software and hardware appliances that route network traffic.
Edge devices that have reached end-of-support (EOS) status and no longer receive security updates pose a significant risk to federal networks and enterprise environments, as they are often targeted by state-sponsored threat actors for network access, persistence, and data theft, the US says.
Source: https://www.securityweek.com/organizations-urged-to-replace-discontinued-edge-devices/
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