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FBI Publishes First-Ever Cyber Strategy, With Focus on Disrupting Threat Actors
The FBI published its first-ever Cyber Strategy on September 9, outlining four pillars for investigating and disrupting cyber threat actors and supporting victims.
The FBI's Cyber Strategy, published September 9, defines four pillars: investigate and impose costs on cyber adversaries, support victims, expand partnerships, and enhance the agency's cyber capabilities. It reflects a broader US shift toward proactive disruption, building on an August memorandum signed by President Trump authorizing collaboration with private firms on offensive cyber operations. The strategy includes expanding the Industrial Control Systems Coordinator program to every field office and deploying AI-enabled tools for triage, malware analysis, and attribution.
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Severity Is Not a Strategy: What CISA BOD 26-04 Means for the Future of Federal Software Security
CISA's BOD 26-04 replaces severity-based federal patching with risk-based remediation deadlines of 3, 14, or 60 days.
CISA's Binding Operational Directive 26-04, released June 10, 2026, replaces BOD 19-02 and BOD 22-01 for Federal Civilian Executive Branch agencies and shifts remediation prioritization from CVSS scores to risk context. Agencies assess four factors: public exposure, KEV listing, exploit automatability, and whether exploitation grants partial or total asset control, resulting in 3-, 14-, or 60-day remediation windows or next-upgrade fixes. In CISA's first review at a large civilian agency, only 1% of vulnerabilities required three-day remediation while over 60% could wait for future system upgrades. The directive also requires forensic analysis when exploitation is suspected, and Checkmarx argues the same risk-based logic must extend upstream into software development and SBOM-driven exposure management.
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FBI officials say AI is bolstering adversaries, emphasizing need to focus on cyber basics, patching
FBI officials said AI is accelerating adversary capabilities while its new cyber strategy emphasizes continuous patching, cyber hygiene, and AI-enabled defense.
At the Billington CyberSecurity Summit and ahead of a new FBI cyber strategy, deputy assistant director Jason Bilnoski said AI is boosting the speed and capability of both criminal and nation-state attackers, while stressing that basic controls like MFA would still prevent most attacks. Colleen Ferranti urged a shift from quarterly Patch Tuesday cycles to continuous, risk-based patching as AI accelerates vulnerability discovery. The strategy pledges AI-enabled triage, malware analysis, attribution support, agentic AI adoption, expanded Computer Network Operations, ICS Coordinators in every field office, and a pledge on victim relief and privacy.
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Why prevention-first secrets security will define enterprise scale: Learnings from a leading telecom
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