Securing Social Media in the Enterprise

Chapter 2

Cyber Kill Chain

Researchers at Lockheed Martin created a model of a typical framework for how to think about targeted attacks called the Cyber Kill Chain. This chapter covers The Kill Chain and explains the sequence of actions that an attacker will go through to achieve their ultimate objectives.

Keywords

Reconnaissance; OSINT; Cyber Kill Chain

Researchers at Lockheed Martin created a model of a typical framework for how to think about targeted attacks. They created a model called the Cyber Kill Chain. The Kill Chain really represents a sequence of actions that an attacker will go through to achieve their ultimate objectives. They’ve laid ...