While we're on the subject of military terms being used to describe the cybersecurity environment,
let's talk tactics, techniques and procedures.
Yes, these are also concepts that we borrow from military planning and military strategy.
But this is important to think about when it comes to the attackers of our cybersecurity environment.
Tactics refer to the overall style that the computer criminals are utilizing.
For instance, maybe they decide to strictly use the Internet in order to gain reconnaissance information
for social engineering attacks.
And then what are the techniques that they would take during those social engineering attacks?
Maybe they have developed a technique that is going to be very, very foolproof when it comes to spear
phishing, the recipients.
And then finally, the procedures are the actual processes that these attackers will go through when
they actually carry out an attack.
So notice it's just more ways to really quantify and qualify the various types of attacks and styles
of attacks that are going to be used against us.
The more that we study the tactics, techniques and procedures used by computer criminals, obviously,
the much better off we will be in defending our networks.