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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.

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  • 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

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