Five defender priorities from the Talos Year in Review

This Talos 'Year in Review' summarises rising attacker trends—credential and MFA abuse, instant weaponization of disclosed vulnerabilities, persistent exploitation of legacy components, and targeting of management/control-plane systems—and provides five defensive priorities: protect identity systems, prioritise externally exposed vulnerabilities, address legacy/embedded risks, secure systems that broker trust, and focus detections on anomalous patterns even as attackers adopt automation and AI.