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Preston Werntz
Coverage of Preston Werntz in the Nexus archive.
- CISA looks to remedy ailments from big May credential leak
CISA responded to a May 2023 credential leak by improving protections for sensitive materials, enhancing vulnerability reporting processes, and developing incident response plans. The leak, involving exposed Amazon AWS GovCloud keys on GitHub, led to no customer data exposure, and CISA implemented measures like endpoint monitoring and secret rotation. A security researcher praised CISA’s transparency in acknowledging both successful and flawed aspects of its response.