1、Solution Overview Cisco PublicDefending Against Critical Threats Analyzing Key Incident Trends Eagles guitarist Joe Walsh once said,“As you live your life,it appears to be anarchy and chaos,with random events smashing into each other.and then later,when you look back on it,it looks like a finely cra

2、fted novel.”Unfortunately,that kind of clarity was hard to come by for cybersecurity defenders in 2021 who were(and still are)dealing with so many high-profile threats,including:Log4j,ransomware attacking critical infrastructure,more reported vulnerabilities than in any previous year,supply chain at

3、tacks growing in momentum,and Emotet coming back from the dead.And thats on top of generally staying ahead of day-to-day organizational risks.To analyze the major threat trends from 2021,and help with some of that“finely crafted novel”clarity for defenders,I sat down with six expert threat hunters a

4、nd analysts from across Cisco Secure.I asked them to tell me about their findings on one specific cybersecurity threat,or incident,from the past 12 months.Each expert chose to discuss a topic that tells us a lot about the current priorities of threat actors.To give you some additional context,this c

5、ontent was written in January 2022.We dont cover what has been happening in Ukraine,however readers can keep up to date with Talos threat advisory blog,which is constantly updated with the latest information.This report also explores predictions and precedents for the year ahead.After what felt like

6、 a chaotic 2021,I wasnt sure how we would go about doing this.But when I talked to Matt Olney,Director of Threat Intelligence and Interdiction at Cisco Talos,he gave me this perspective:“Broadly speaking,over the last five years,nothing has happened that has fundamentally changed our approach as def