White House Releases Recommendations To Protect Against Potential Cyberattacks

The potential for malicious cyber activity has been a concern for the Biden administration throughout the evolving crisis in Ukraine (including the imposition of sanctions against Russia). In response to the concern, the Biden administration, which is now facing "evolving intelligence that Russia may be exploring options for potential cyberattacks," has released recommendations for companies to protect against cyberattacks.

The administration urges companies to do the following with urgency:

• Mandate the use of multi-factor authentication on all systems;
• Deploy modern security tools on all computers and devices to continuously look for and mitigate threats;
• Check with cybersecurity professionals to make sure that all systems are patched and protected against all known vulnerabilities, and change passwords across all networks so that previously stolen credentials are useless to malicious actors;