The title here is a little misleading. I’m not just referring to the word attacker; I’m going to talk about a lot of roughly synonymous terms that you’ll often find in cybersecurity reports: adversary, malicious user, hacker, and my favourite – malicious attacker. These words are designed to be sca...

You’ll find this word on many penetration tests – it’s a very specific and important term.

Given all the time in the world, a penetration test can crack every password, find every known vulnerability, break past all your cybersecurity armour. But, running penetration testing tools takes time. And ...

When I first started in cybersecurity this word seemed fairly opaque. To me, at least; everybody around me used this word frequently. But, not coming from this world--like many people who make decisions--this word needs explanation.

I first read this word as the opposite to infiltration. Infiltrat...