Cybersecurity definition
What is Kill Chain?
By Cyber Tool Stack Editorial TeamUpdated
Definition
A model that breaks an attack into a sequence of stages — reconnaissance, weaponization, delivery, exploitation, and so on through actions on objectives — on the premise that breaking any single link stops the whole attack.
Related cybersecurity terms
MITRE ATT&CKAdversarial Tactics, Techniques, and Common KnowledgeA free, continuously updated knowledge base, maintained by the MITRE Corporation, that catalogs real-world attacker behavior as a matrix of tactics (the attacker's goal, like lateral movement) and techniques (how it's done), giving defenders a shared vocabulary for describing and detecting threats.Lateral MovementThe stage of an attack where, after gaining an initial foothold, an intruder moves from system to system inside a network to reach more valuable targets, often using stolen credentials rather than new exploits.