Blog Posts Tagged with "Active Defense"
Controversial Active Cyber Defense
December 01, 2012 Added by:Jarno Limnéll
Increasingly, both the armed forces and businesses are practicing the concept of “active defense,” a military term that refers to efforts to thwart an attack by attacking the attackers. However popular it has become, active defense is an alarming trend...
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Morphing Network Assets to Restrict Adversarial Reconnaissance
July 18, 2012 Added by:Headlines
"The intent of cyber maneuver is to place computer network defense technology into a proactive state, thereby shifting the advantage away from the attacker. By constantly changing the characteristics of the networks it resides on, MOPRHINATOR provides a more robust and trusted networking solution..."
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Dutch MoD Releases Defense Cyber Strategy
June 29, 2012 Added by:Don Eijndhoven
What makes this interesting is that they are declaring that non-combatants may also be actively targeted. In essence, they are putting the world on notice that if you’re involved with a cyber attack, part of a militia or a terrorist, you have a bull’s-eye on your head. No matter where you are. Plain and simple...
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Are Enterprises Really Hacking the Hackers?
June 27, 2012 Added by:Rafal Los
Active defense is using technology which can confuse an attacker, mislead them into spending time on worthless parts of an application, or slowing the response rate of the network or application down. That's active defense. Striking back involves actually going on the offensive, which is likely highly illegal...
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Active Defense: The New Digital Wild West Justice
June 19, 2012 Added by:Scot Terban
This will just get out of hand and incredibly stupid. Sure, you can say that you are just going to maybe tarpit those attackers to prevent them from getting in quickly, but, you have to know that there will be (already are) services where blackhat types will hack back against those who “dun you wrong”...
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