Our Recommendations for this month

Some recommendations for you to look at. As always a good Orangutan is prepared and secures their home:

• Patch critical network appliances NOW – prioritize Citrix, Cisco, and other perimeter devices with aggressive patch cycles and WAF signatures.

• Harden telco-grade infra – deploy EDR/XDR on routers, enforce zero trust, and run threat hunts for state-extortion groups like Salt Typhoon.

• Re-assess cloud config hygiene – audit Snowflake & API/microservice configurations, rotate tokens/keys, and set up storage access logging and alarm-ing.

• Inventory browser-based malware exposure – deploy credential vaults, enforce MFA, and update endpoint protection to detect Rust-style stealers like Myth.

• Automate API security testing – integrate API scanning during CI pipelines; use WAFs for real-time anomaly detection on traffic to internal APIs.

• Invest in intelligence feeds – subscribe to telemetry that surfaces PoCs and threat chatter (e.g., Citrix exploits, APT chatter) so you’re not always reacting late.

• Create or update your internal AI use policy – define sanctioned tools, data handling standards, and approval flows for business units experimenting with AI.

• Launch end-user awareness training – focused specifically on AI risks: model hallucination, sensitive data handling, and phishing via AI-generated content.

• Partner with legal and compliance teams – to establish acceptable use guidelines and vendor reviews for third-party AI tools.

Thanks to Hornet Security for these