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Killing Advanced Threats in Their Tracks: An Intelligent Approach to Attack Prevention by Tony Sager - July 29, 2014
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All attacks follow certain stages. By observing those stages during an attack progression and then creating immediate protections to block those attack methods, organizations can achieve a level of closed-loop intelligence that can block and protect across this attack kill chain. This paper explains the many steps in the kill chain, along with how to detect unknown attacks by integrating intelligence into sensors and management consoles.
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