Alert: NCSC issues advice following global targeting of Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways

The UK NCSC published an alert advising organisations using Fortinet products to take immediate action after a campaign globally targeted Fortinet firewalls and VPN gateways. Recommended steps include applying vendor patches and mitigations, reviewing and hardening VPN and remote access configurations, increasing logging and network monitoring at the edge, and using dynamic threat-feed filtering for known covert-network indicators. The feed also highlights related NCSC guidance: preparing for a large patch wave, checking software supply-chain dependencies, adopting ZTNA best practices, moving