Malware Free Networks

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The GCSB’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) has developed a service called Malware Free Networks (MFN), which is designed to strengthen New Zealand’s cyber defence capabilities. MFN is a threat detection and disruption service that provides near real-time threat intelligence reflecting current malicious activity targeting New Zealand organisations. MFN will bring the NCSC’s cyber security capabilities to a much larger number of nationally significant New Zealand organisations.

The MFN threat intelligence service can be integrated with other systems and platforms to increase the range of malicious activity MFN customers are defended against. MFN complements commercial threat intelligence by detecting and disrupting against indicators identified through NCSC’s advanced cyber defence capabilities and sourced from the NCSC’s international cyber security partnerships.

Cyber threats affecting New Zealand organisations are increasing in complexity and impact.
The ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, and the ways organisations are responding to it, have increased the potential threat surface for malicious cyber actors to take advantage of.
The GCSB’s National Cyber Security Centre (NCSC) identified links to state-sponsored actors in nearly a third of the incidents it dealt with in 2019-2020.
The NCSC continues to build and grow New Zealand’s cyber defence capabilities, most recently through Malware Free Networks (MFN).
MFN will bring the NCSC’s cyber security capabilities to a much larger number of nationally significant New Zealand organisations.
MFN is additional to CORTEX, which is a cyber defence capability provided by the NCSC to New Zealand’s nationally significant organisations. MFN complements the existing threat detection and disruption service provided by the NCSC to consenting organisations.
MFN is a threat detection and disruption service provided by the NCSC