Anatomy of an Oversight: CISA’s Postmortem on the Six-Month Credentials Leak
In a rare display of institutional transparency, the Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA)—the very entity tasked with protecting the nation’s critical digital infrastructure—has released a comprehensive postmortem detailing a significant security lapse. For nearly six months, hundreds of sensitive internal credentials, including administrative access keys to Amazon AWS GovCloud servers and plaintext passwords for…
