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Federal agencies given 18 months to remove unsupported edge devices

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CISA order signals ramping up of response to nation-state-initiated attacks.

Federal agencies have been given 18 months in which to remove firewalls, routers, VPNs, and any other edge devices that are no longer receiving vendor support.

The Cybersecurity and Infrastructure Security Agency (CISA) has issued a Binding Operational Directive, BOD 26-02, in an escalation of its response to the growing

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