Great responsibility, without great power
In this week’s newsletter, Hazel uses International Superhero Day as a springboard to explore why empathy — rather than just technical prowess — is the most essential, underrated superpower for navigating the human side of cybersecurity.
Five defender priorities from the Talos Year in Review
With attackers moving faster than ever, it’s easy to feel overwhelmed. This blog breaks down five practical priorities from the Cisco Talos 2025 Year in Review to help defenders focus and prioritize, amidst all the noise.
State-sponsored threats: Different objectives, similar access paths
A look at 2025 state-sponsored threats, exploring how actors linked to China, Russia, North Korea, and Iran use vulnerabilities, identity, and trusted access paths to achieve their goals.
[Video] The TTP Ep. 22: The Collapse of the Patch Window
In this episode of The Talos Threat Perspective, we discuss how vulnerability exploitation is accelerating, and why attacker speed, AI, and exposed systems are affecting the patch window.
[Video] The TTP Ep 21: When Attackers Become Trusted Users
An episode of the Talos Threat Perspective on the 2025 Year in Review trends. We explore how identity is being used to gain, extend, and maintain access inside environments.
Inside the Talos 2025 Year in Review: A discussion on what the data means for defenders
A conversation between Cisco Talos and Cisco Security leaders on the 2025 threat landscape, from identity attacks and legacy vulnerabilities to AI-driven threats, and what defenders should prioritize now.
Ransomware in 2025: Blending in is the strategy
A summary of the top ransomware trends from the Talos 2025 Year in Review, with a focus on identity, attacker tactics, and practical defenses.
Beers with Talos breaks down the 2025 Talos Year in Review
The Beers with Talos team unpack the biggest cybersecurity threats of 2025, from React2Shell to ransomware and identity abuse, and what it all means for defenders going forward.
You have to invite them in
While a garlic and wooden stakes keep the vampires at bay in movies, they won’t save your network once an attacker has been "invited in." Discover why identity is the new frontier of cyber horror in this week’s edition.