Enhancing Cybersecurity with Cyber Kill Chain®

Cyber Kill Chain

Developed by Lockheed Martin, the Cyber Kill Chain® framework is part of the Intelligence Driven Defense® model for identification and prevention of cyber intrusions activity. The model identifies what the adversaries must complete in order to achieve their objective.

The seven steps of the Cyber Kill Chain® enhance visibility into an attack and enrich an analyst’s understanding of an adversary’s tactics, techniques and procedures.

A: Advanced

Targeted, Coordinated, Purposeful

P: Persistent

Targeted, Coordinated, Purposeful

T: Threat

Person(s) with Intent, Opportunity, and Capability

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The Cyber Kill Chain®: A LOCKHEED MARTIN OVERVIEW

For more than a decade, Lockheed Martin’s Intelligence Driven Defense® and Cyber Kill Chain® methodologies have helped our customers defend their most sensitive networks. It is because of this proven framework, superior technology, and hundreds of skilled analysts that Lockheed Martin remains a global leader in cyber innovation.

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Interested in cybersecurity? Not sure what to study or how to prepare? Our Lockheed Martin experts share advice about how to get a cyber job.


Threat-Driven Approach to Cyber Security

White Paper: Examine methodologies, practices and tools to enable a functionally integrated cybersecurity organization using Intelligence Driven Defense® practices.


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White Paper: Examine an approach to determining overall severity of cyber exploitation & testing findings, based on the context (circumstances, setting, conditions) in which the discovered findings reside.

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LM-CIRT is responsible for detecting, assessing, and mitigating information security threats across the global enterprise. They at the forefront of industry and government collaboration to develop new, more effective computer network defense (CND) tradecraft.

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