Think like a Hacker, a Defense Strategy
A good defense requires that IT security professionals think like an attacker to defend their organizations tactically and preemptively. In general, security professionals need to develop “oblique thinking,” enabling an adversarial mindset that focuses on identifying assumptions and determining if and how these assumptions can be violated. This article focuses focus on the (1) reconnaissance, (2) scanning (3) and gaining access phases of hacking and how to defend against them.
