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Counterintelligence and operational security

Counterintelligence and operational security

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Counterintelligence and operational security

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- Counterintelligence in the context of threat hunting and threat intelligence refers to the practice used to detect, analyze, and mitigate adversary efforts to gather intelligence on an organization's systems, assets, or personnel. Effective counterintelligence strategies actively identify and disrupt the TTPs. The tactics, the techniques, and the procedures employed by adversaries to exploit weaknesses and collect sensitive information. The key goals of counterintelligence are to prevent information leakage or data loss prevention, detect and disrupt reconnaissance efforts, the early phases of the kill chain, or an advanced persistent threat, and overall protect organizational assets. Some real world examples of counterintelligence would be detecting insider threats, implementing counterintelligence measures, such as honey files and honey tokens to monitor and analyze employee behavior. This could also be user behavioral analytics as well. Disrupting phishing campaigns. Using…

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