

How to Think Like an Attacker

Craig Harber of Fidelis on a New Way to Envision and Build the Security Stack
How to Think Like an Attacker
Craig Harber, Fidelis Cybersecurity

It's one thing to know your attackers. It's another to emulate some of their techniques so you can improve your own enterprise defenses. Craig Harber, CTO of Fidelis Cybersecurity, is an advocate of this "think like an attacker" defensive strategy.

"By understanding what attackers are doing, we can use that to essentially change our defensive posture," Harber says. "By understanding the scenarios or sequences they go through, we can actually start predicting an attack before it's fully occurred."

In an interview about attackers and the security stack, Harber discusses:

  • Fundamental differences in how attackers and defenders think;
  • What defenders can learn from their adversaries;
  • How to use this knowledge to reimagine the enterprise security stack.


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