Exploring the Cyber Kill Chain
Threats actors always have a motive for performing their cyber attacks and unleashing security threats on the internet. Cybersecurity professionals are always working to prevent those attacks and threats in their efforts to safeguard organizations and users around the world. To better prevent an attack, cybersecurity professionals also need to better understand the steps the threat actor is using to perform the attack. Therefore, if the cybersecurity professional is able to stop the attack at any of the critical steps the threat actor is performing, then overall, the attack will not be successful.
An American aerospace corporation by the name of Lockheed Martin developed a framework known as the Cyber Kill Chain. This framework contains a total of seven critical steps that a threat actor usually performs during a cyber attack. The Cyber Kill Chain has been widely adopted within the cybersecurity community to assist security professionals in identifying...
