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<h5><em>CISA’s recent release of cybersecurity performance goals define basic cross-sector cyber hygiene benchmarks.</em></h5>
In late October, CISA <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/cpg">released</a> cybersecurity performance goals (CPGs), stressing the importance of basic cyber hygiene, a topic which almost a decade ago, Hubble CEO and Founder highlighted on a Dark Reading Article, “<a href="https://www.darkreading.com/risk/combatting-advanced-threats-in-2013-through-basics">Combatting Advanced Threats In 2013 Through Basics</a>”. For many organizations, little has changed, failing to make basic IT hygiene a priority, before implementing more complex controls. Hubble applauds CISA renewed focus, establishing benchmarks that can be leveraged by both the public and private sector, these performance goals stress the governments push to keep cybersecurity top of mind for all organizations. The cross-sector Cybersecurity Performance Goals (CPGs) were compiled in alignment with NIST CSF and are aligned to MITRE ATT&amp;CK TTPs.

Director of CISA, Jen Easterly, stated in the announcement of the performance goals last month that “CISA has created such a set of cybersecurity performance goals to address medium-to-high impact cybersecurity risks to our critical infrastructure.” The goal of these benchmarks are to reduce risk to our national infrastructure and supply chain.
<h3>CPGs Are the Floor, Not the Ceiling</h3>
Released as a series of benchmarks to help guide organizations in defining their cybersecurity baseline, the CPGs in CISA’s core document are sector neutral, allowing for cross industry adoption and discussion. While voluntary, abiding by the minimum set of practices defined by the CPGs will ensure that your organization has established a solid cybersecurity baseline backed by well-regarded cybersecurity frameworks. As stated in the <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2022_00092_CISA_CPG_Report_508c.pdf">core document</a>, the CPGs are a floor, not a ceiling.

As part of defining the floor of basic cyber hygiene, the cross-sector CPGs were developed as part of a strategy to address known risks and adversary techniques in the current threat landscape. From minimizing likelihood of the risk to lowering the impact the risk could have on an organization, the CPGs developed give security teams the ability to baseline their current security program in terms of . This visibility and breakdown will allow security teams to continuously benchmark their cybersecurity maturity against the performance metrics as improvements are made. In tandem with the CPGs, CISA has also authored a checklist to help prioritize and track an organization's implementation. The goals are also tightly map to critical controls for operational technology environments.
<h3>Benchmarking Against the CPGs</h3>
To benchmark an organization against the attestable goals, a security team must have full visibility into their network to assess their current state to the defined CPGs. Benchmarking against account security, devices, vulnerability management, governance, supply chain and data requires visibility and intelligence into your entire network and tech stack. Here is what must be understood at each domain to benchmark your current state against the CPGs:
<h4>Account Security</h4>
CISA’s CPGs surrounding account security, including separating user and privileged accounts, assume that an organization has full intelligence into their network and assets. Assessing an organization’s maturity as it relates to account security relies on having an up to date, real time look into their network and assets.
<h5>Devices</h5>
Organizations assume that if they have an asset inventory, they have the ability to fully benchmark their device security, but, without the intelligence of where your assets are located, who has access to them, and where the assets are going, device security maturity is impossible to define.
<h5>Vulnerability Management</h5>
To benchmark an organization’s vulnerability management, the organization must understand where they vulnerable which requires an understanding of where and how the network is exposed. Exposure must be defined through insights into the threat landscape and how every asset in an organizations network is a part of the overall attack surface for the company.
<h5>Governance</h5>
Understanding an organizations performance in the governance realm is relative if the intelligence they apply to their governance benchmarks is incomplete. With an everchanging network landscape, organizations must invest in thorough asset intelligence to ensure their benchmarking is thorough in addressing the complexities that exist.
<h5>Supply Chain</h5>
Without a real time, network map connecting all assets, an organization cannot truly assess their supply chain security. What assets are connected where is insufficient, organizations must go a step further to understand what aspects of the supply chain can interact with each other and what controls are actively deployed and in place as part of the connection.
<h5>Data</h5>
Understanding the risk of data goes back to understanding where the data resides. Data maturity cannot be defined without an asset intelligence program that can give insight into the entire network and each individual asset interacting with it. This insight is imperative to determining an organizations full breadth of exposure, allowing them in term to determine maturity is data security.

The categories chosen for the CISA CPGs were chosen based on the identified key challenges that leave our nation at the most serious risk. While the initiative defines the floor, reaching for the ceiling requires full network visibility and asset intelligence. Even assessing maturity against basic cyber hygiene goals, like the ones discussed in the <a href="https://www.cisa.gov/sites/default/files/publications/2022_00092_CISA_CPG_Report_508c.pdf">main report</a>, are inaccurately measured without a full scope understanding of the interconnections throughout the network. As we continue to deal with an everchanging threat landscape and increasing attack surface, having confidence when assigning a maturity to basic cyber goals will be crucial. To learn how you can gather the network and asset intelligence needed to define the floor and begin reaching for the ceiling, <a href="https://www.hubble.net/get-started/">request a demo</a> today.

Defining the Floor of Cybersecurity

<em><b>Washington DC, 10 May 2022</b> – Hubble, the Washington, DC based company that solves the challenge of technology asset visibility, was selected among hundreds of candidates as one of the World Economic Forum’s “Technology Pioneers”. Hubble was founded in 2020, backed by Accel, Paladin Capital and the CrowdStrike Falcon Fund. CrowdStrike, the market leader in endpoint protection (NASDAQ:CRWD) was a Technology Pioneer awardee in 2015.</em>

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 	<li>The World Economic Forum announced its selection of the 100 most promising Technology Pioneers of 2022 - companies that are tackling issues from sustainability and climate change to healthcare and more</li>
 	<li>This year’s cohort includes representation from 30 economies on six continents with reach far beyond traditional tech hubs like Silicon Valley</li>
 	<li>Hubble Technology, which solves the challenge of enterprise technology asset visibility made it to the selection for its contributions in the fields of information technology and cyber security</li>
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The full list of Technology Pioneers <a href="https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">can be viewed here.</a>

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The <a href="https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">World Economic Forum’s Technology Pioneers</a> are early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the use of new technologies and innovation that are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

With their selection as Technology Pioneer, CEO Tom Parker of Hubble will be invited to participate at World Economic Forum activities, events and discussions throughout the year. Over the next two years, Hubble will also contribute to Forum initiatives, such as the Center for Cyber Security (C4), which Tom was a founding member of during his tenure as a global leader at Accenture (NYSE:ACN) Security.
<p class="quote"><strong>“We’re excited to welcome Hubble to our 2022 cohort of Technology Pioneers,”</strong> says Saemoon Yoon, Community Lead, Technology Pioneers, World Economic Forum. <strong>“Hubble and its fellow pioneers are at the forefront of industries that are critical to solving some of our world’s most complex issues today. We look forward to their contribution to the World Economic Forum in its commitment to improving the state of the world.”</strong></p>
<p class="quote"><strong>“The Forum is known for providing a platform to enable a global dialogue in so many critical areas of our increasingly complex lives, and we are excited to pioneer new ideas with this esteemed group.”</strong>, said Hubble CEO, Tom Parker. <strong>“In our first two years we have witnessed the positive impact that our technology has had on businesses. This award highlights the global scale of the intractable problem we solve. Our proven solution enables global organizations to operate in a more secure and resilient manner, catalysing transformation and overall business growth. We look forward to contributing to the Forum dialogues on this challenge.”</strong></p>
For the first time, over one-third of selected Technology Pioneer firms are led by women, well above the <a href="https://www.svb.com/women-in-technology" target="_blank" rel="noopener">industry average.</a> The firms also come from regions all around the world, creating a truly global community. This year’s cohort includes start-ups from 30 countries, with Vietnam, Rwanda and Czech Republic represented for the first time.

The diversity of these companies extends to their innovations as well. This year’s Tech Pioneer firms are shaping the future by advancing technologies such as AI, IoT, robotics, blockchain, biotechnology and many more. The full list of Technology Pioneers can be found <a href="https://widgets.weforum.org/techpioneers-2022/index.html" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>

Technology Pioneers have been selected based on the community’s selection criteria, which includes innovation, impact and leadership as well as the company’s relevance with the World Economic Forum’s <a href="https://www.weforum.org/platforms/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Platforms.</a>

<b>All info on this year’s Technology Pioneers can be found here:</b> <a href="http://wef.ch/techpioneers22" target="_blank" rel="noopener">http://wef.ch/techpioneers22</a> More information on past winners, information on the community and the application link can be found <a href="https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">here.</a>

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<h3>About Hubble Technology</h3>
Hubble’s sector-defining solution to asset visibility and intelligence provides a flexible, customizable platform designed to equip its users with a trusted, accurate and thorough understanding of their asset universe.

Hubble’s platform allows organizations to see and understand their increasingly complex technology environments, enabling actionable insights that allow businesses to eliminate risk, reduce costs and catalyze digital transformation. To learn more, please visit us at <a href="https://www.hubble.net/">www.hubble.net</a> or follow us on Twitter <a href="https://twitter.com/gethubble">@gethubble</a>.

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<h3>About World Economic Forum</h3>
The World Economic Forum, committed to improving the state of the world, is the International Organization for Public-Private Cooperation. The Forum engages the foremost political, business and other leaders of society to shape global, regional and industry agendas. (<a href="https://www.weforum.org/" target="_blank" rel="noopener">www.weforum.org</a>).

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<h3>About the Technology Pioneers</h3>
The World Economic Forum believes that innovation is critical to the future well-being of society and to driving economic growth. Launched in 2000, the <a href="https://www.weforum.org/communities/technology-pioneers" target="_blank" rel="noopener">Technology Pioneer</a> community is composed of early to growth-stage companies from around the world that are involved in the design, development and deployment of new technologies and innovations, and are poised to have a significant impact on business and society.

The World Economic Forum provides the Technology Pioneers community with a platform to engage with the public- and private-sector leaders and to contribute new solutions to overcome the current crisis and build future resiliency.

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