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Yeah this is pretty basic information security terminology. An "attack" is any attempted intrusion, successful or not, damaging or not. If the threat actor mana
by freehunter 7y ago
Yeah this is pretty basic information security terminology. An "attack" is any attempted intrusion, successful or not, damaging or not. If the threat actor managed to breach your defenses and gain unauthorized access, that's called an attack.
For some definitions:
https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/difference-between-a-threat-actor-hacker-attacker https://www.beyondtrust.com/blog/entry/difference-between-a-...
- meowface 7y agoI think it's an attack in the network/technical sense but not the strategic sense. There's a bit of a conflation of terms here because there are at least two layers to any operation like this; the system intrusion itself, and using the access to achieve some kind of real world objective. Militarily or strategically, this would just be something like reconnaissance and preparation, I think (I know almost nothing about militaries though). So it's a system attack but not an "attack-attack".