Today, CISA—along with U.S. and international partners—released joint guidance Secure by Demand: Priority Considerations for Operational Technology Owners and Operators when Selecting Digital Products. As part of CISA’s Secure by Demand series, this guidance focuses on helping customers identify manufacturers dedicated to continuous improvement and achieving a better cost balance, as well as how Operational Technology (OT) owners and operators should integrate secure by design elements into their procurement process.

Critical infrastructure and industrial control systems are prime targets for cyberattacks. The authoring agencies warn that threat actors, when compromising OT components, target specific OT products rather than specific organizations. Many OT products are not designed and developed with Secure by Design principles and often have easily exploited weaknesses. When procuring products, OT owners and operators should select products from manufacturers who prioritize security elements identified in this guidance.

For more information on questions to consider during procurement discussions, see CISA’s Secure by Demand Guide: How Software Customers Can Drive a Secure Technology Ecosystem. To learn more about secure by design principles and practices, visit Secure by Design.

Today, CISA released the Cybersecurity Performance Goals Adoption Report to highlight how adoption of Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) benefits our nation’s critical infrastructure sectors. Originally released in October 2022, CISA’s CPGs are voluntary practices that critical infrastructure owners can take to protect themselves against cyber threats. 

This report is based on analysis of 7,791 critical infrastructure organizations enrolled in CISA’s Vulnerability Scanning service from Aug. 1, 2022, through Aug. 31, 2024. Data reveals that four critical infrastructure sectors are most impacted by CPG adoption: Healthcare and Public Health, Water and Wastewater Systems, Communications, and Government Services and Facilities. These four sectors have strong partnerships with CISA.

As CISA strengthens partnerships across all 16 critical infrastructure sectors, the agency hopes that CPG adoption will continue to expand. CISA urges critical infrastructure to learn more by visiting Cross-Sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals. 

Ivanti released security updates to address vulnerabilities (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283) in Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways. A cyber threat actor could exploit CVE-2025-0282 to take control of an affected system.

CISA has added CVE-2025-0282 to its Known Exploited Vulnerabilities Catalog, based on evidence of active exploitation.

CISA urges organizations to hunt for any malicious activity, report any positive findings to CISA, and review the following for more information:

• Security Advisory Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283)

For all instances of Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure, and ZTA Gateways, see the following steps for general hunting guidance:

1. Conduct threat hunting actions:  
   1. Run the In-Build Integrity Checker Tool (ICT). Instructions can be found here. 
   2. Conduct threat hunt actions on any systems connected to—or recently connected to—the affected Ivanti device.  
2. If threat hunting actions determine no compromise: 
   1. Factory reset the device and apply the patch described in Security Advisory Ivanti Connect Secure, Policy Secure & ZTA Gateways (CVE-2025-0282, CVE-2025-0283). 
   2. Monitor the authentication or identity management services that could be exposed. 
   3. Continue to audit privilege level access accounts. 
3. If threat hunting actions determine compromise: 
   1. Report to CISA and Ivanti immediately to start forensic investigation and incident response activities.  
   2. Disconnect instances of affected Ivanti Connect Secure products.  
   3. Isolate the systems from any enterprise resources to the greatest degree possible. 
   4. Revoke and reissue any connected or exposed certificates, keys, and passwords, to include the following: 
      1. Reset the admin enable password. 
      2. Reset stored application programming interface (API) keys. 
      3. Reset the password of any local user defined on the gateway, including service accounts used for auth server configuration(s).  
   5. If domain accounts associated with the affected products have been compromised: 
      1. Reset passwords twice for on premise accounts, revoke Kerberos tickets, and then revoke tokens for cloud accounts in hybrid deployments. 
      2. For cloud joined/registered devices, disable devices in the cloud to revoke the device tokens.
   6. After investigation, fully patch and restore system to service.

Organizations should report incidents and anomalous activity to CISA’s 24/7 Operations Center at Report@cisa.gov or (888) 282-0870. When available, please include the following information regarding the incident: date, time, and location of the incident; type of activity; number of people affected; type of equipment used for the activity; the name of the submitting company or organization; and a designated point of contact.