In this week's Security Sprint, Dave and Andy covered the following topics:

Warm Open:

• The White House fired 176 CISA employees on Friday, with more layoffs fearedLayoffs, reassignments further deplete CISA

• Top cyber lawmaker wants answers on CISA workforce reductions

• Tech industry unites behind bipartisan effort to urgently reauthorize US cyber threat information sharing law

• What They Are Saying: Technology Stakeholders Urge Passage Of Peters & Rounds Bipartisan Bill To Restore Critical Cybersecurity Protections (CISA 2015)

Main Topics:

F5, AWS, Third Party Risk & Resilience:

• AWS: Operational issue - Multiple services (N. Virginia).

• AWS: Operational issue - Multiple services (N. Virginia). [RESOLVED] Increased Error Rates and Latencies

• What the Huge AWS Outage Reveals About the Internet

• AWS outage exposes Achilles heel: central control plane

• F5: K000154696: F5 Security Incident

• F5, Inc. Form 8K

• ED 26-01: Mitigate Vulnerabilities in F5 Devices

Ransomware & Data Breaches:

• IT-ISAC: Quarterly IT Sector Ransomware Analysis Q3 2025, July -September. PDF.

• BlackFog’s 2025 Q3 Ransomware Report

Arctic Wolf 2025 Human Risk Report Reveals Escalating Breaches, Overconfidence in Phishing Defenses, and Risky AI Behavior. Key findings from the 2025 Human Risk Behavior Snapshot include:

Quick Hits:

• AG Platkin Sets Standards for Active-Shooter Readiness

• Satellites Are Leaking the World’s Secrets: Calls, Texts, Military and Corporate Data

• NCSC Warns Data Centres Face Rising Cybersecurity Threats

• Microsoft Dominates Phishing Impersonations in Q3 2025

• UK NCSC - UK experiencing four 'nationally significant' cyber attacks every week

• UK NPSA: Protecting our Democratic Institutions: Countering Espionage and Foreign Interference

• DDoS Botnet Aisuru Blankets US ISPs in Record DDoS