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CERT NZ provides you with up-to-date, actionable advice on current threats and vulnerabilities, as well as guidance on mitigation and cyber security best practice.

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Advisories

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Our advisories highlight current cyber security threats and vulnerabilities in New Zealand, and provide guidance on how to mitigate their impact.

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Critical vulnerability in Microsoft Windows Server

Wormable Remote Code Execution (RCE) vulnerability CVE-2020-1350 allows an unauthenticated remote attacker to gain system privileges over Windows DNS infrastructure.

Active ransomware campaign leveraging remote access technologies

Targeted attacks exploiting vulnerabilities in Microsoft Windows

When paired together, segmentation and separation can add an additional level of access control and security to your network, systems, and data.

Critical controls

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For each control we provide a page summarising the intent and success measures for decision makers. We have a separate page providing implementation advice for practitioners.

CERT NZ's Critical Controls 2020

This is the third year of CERT NZ’s ten critical controls for organisations. These controls would prevent, detect, or contain most of the attacks we’ve seen in the past year.

1. Patch your software and systems

Keeping your software up-to-date is one of the most simple and effective steps to take, to ensure your environment stays secure.