Security professionals understand theyre no longer facing script kiddies who lack a comprehensive plan. Security professionals are not fully aware of how detail-oriented adversaries are when developing an attack campaign. Attack planning is handled like a business operation and includes hiring plans, budgets and timelines. The first step in any attack is setting the operations goals. Hackers will do anything to accomplish them: Theyll disregard rules and will use deception whenever possible. The reconnaissance that hackers conduct goes beyond mapping a company’s IT network or learning about its technology.”]
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