Cyber Kill Chain — Military approach to cyber attacks and defense

Vinsloev
3 min readJun 4, 2022

In this article we will dive into the Cyber Kill Chain for Cybersecurity. The Cyber kill chain framework is originally developed by Lockheed Martin and takes inspiration from the Military Kill chain, where steps taken by adversaries in their effort to achieve their objective, is identified. By understanding how an adversary is utilizing an attacking, it’s possible for the defender to step in at any of these stages and try to break the kill chain and thereby block the attack.

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This tutorial is divided into each of the stages within the Cyber Kill chain and has an attached video which further explain and demonstrate tools relevant in a given stage. The videos utilizes the Kali Linux OS as this Operation System contain most of the software used by cyber security experts today.

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