The Defender’s Advantage:

A guide to activating cyber defense

When organizations are faced with adversaries in their own environment, they have a fundamental “defender’s advantage.”

Security teams capitalize on this advantage if they can effectively control the landscape where they meet their attackers.

This is achieved by activating a practical framework designed to up-level your cyber defense capabilities through six critical security functions that work hand-in-hand.

• Intelligence: The guiding light across an organization
• Detect: Alert monitoring and investigation
• Respond: Incident response and recovery
• Validate: Targeted testing and controls validation
• Hunt: Threat hunting and compromise assessment
• Mission control: Maintain the mission for all functions

Capitalize on your Defender’s Advantage by understanding and activating the six critical functions of cyber defense today.