The intrusion kill chain is a cybersecurity first principle strategy.

Why work in the past when you can thrive in the future? The intrusion kill chain is an evolution over the antiquated concepts of defense in depth and tactical cybersecurity. In this lesson, Rick discusses the genius of the intrusion kill chain strategy, the seven attacker milestones that define every kill chain, and how to implement kill chain prevention with limited resources. The episode includes a detailed case study about implementing the strategy against APT 34 (OilRig) with Ryan Olson, Vice President of Threat Intelligence at Palo Alto Networks.

Cybersecurity professional development and continued education.

You will learn about: defense-in-depth vs. intrusion kill chains, the 7 milestones of every successful attack, how to defend against a threat actors using the kill chain.

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Additional first principles resources for your cybersecurity program.

For more intrusion kill chain and cybersecurity first principles resources, check the topic essay.

Selected Reading:

“Compressing the Kill Chain” By Adam J. Hebert. 1 March 2003
“Defense-In-Depth Against Computer Viruses” by Fred Cohen, Computers and Security, Volume 11, Issue 6, pp.563-579, ISSN 0167-4048, October 1992
"Intelligence-Driven Computer Network Defense Informed by Analysis of Adversary Campaigns and Intrusion Kill Chains” by Eric Hutchins, Michael Cloppert, Rohan Amin, Lockheed Martin Corporation, 2010
“Trends In Computer Virus Research” by Fred Cohen, VXHeaven, sponsored by ASP, 1991

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Rick Howard is the CSO of N2K and the Chief Analyst, and Senior Fellow at the N2K Cyber, formerly CyberWire. His past lives include CSO at Palo Alto Networks, CISO at TASC, the GM at Verisign/iDefense, the Counterpane SOC Director, and the Commander of the Army's Computer Emergency Response Team (CERT). Rick served 25 years in the Army, taught computer science at West Point, edited two books and just published his own book, "Cybersecurity First Principles: A Reboot of Strategy and Tactics" and he is regularly joined at the N2K Cyber's Hash Table by a collection of industry experts.

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