BrandPost: Modern Cyberattacks: Tradecraft on Your Network

At the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association’s Defensive Cyber Operations Symposium last year, DISA Director LTG Alan R. Lynn described a shift in attackers’ operations. Lynn stated that it’s become “snatch and grab” rather than following traditional intelligence techniques of using good tradecraft (the set of an attacker’s operational techniques and tools) to compromise, monitor, and accomplish the mission while avoiding detection.In essence