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The Unified Kill Chain merges the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATTACK into 18 attack phases spanning foothold, propagation, and objectives.
Unified Kill Chain Definition: The Unified Kill Chain merges the Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATTACK into 18 attack phases spanning foothold, propagation, and objectives.
The Unified Kill Chain is an attack modeling framework, developed by Paul Pols, that merges and extends the Lockheed Martin Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATTACK into a single end-to-end sequence of 18 attack phases. It organizes these phases into three broad stages, initial foothold, network propagation, and action on objectives, to describe a complete intrusion more comprehensively than earlier models. It is used to map adversary behavior, identify defensive gaps, and structure detection and response.
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