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Cybersecurity Attacks – Red Team Strategies
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The concept that the home-team, which plays on their own grounds and amongst their supporters having an advantage over the away-team is referred to in sports as well. Let's look how this applies to red teaming.
"Whoever is first in the field and awaits the coming enemy, will be fresh for the fight; whoever is second in the field and has to hasten to battle, will arrive exhausted."
– The Art of War, Sun Tsu
The biggest advantage an in-house offensive security team has, compared to a real-world adversary, is homefield advantage. Unfortunately, many organizations are not exploiting this advantage. In fact, in some organizations, offensive and defensive teams operate in complete silos rather than learning from each other:
Figure 2.2: Ineffective communication prohibits the implementation of effective mitigations and defenses
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