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Strategy
From: Dave Aitel <dave () immunityinc com>
Date: Sat, 24 Nov 2007 05:37:28 -0500
-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 If you're reading an information warfare book or paper you'll invariably see a lot of: 1. Inane references to Sun Tzu (or, in some even more horrible cases, any two of Sun Tzu, Clausewitz, and John Boyd) 2. Declarations that information warfare is an "asymmetric attack" It's not asymmetric in the slightest. If you take any significant period of time then the organization with more money has a huge advantage in this game. That doesn't mean that good strategy doesn't hurt, and I wanted to showcase some examples: Halvar gave a talk on his malware classification algorithms and at the beginning of the talk he said "This prevents the malware authors from using off-the-shelf compilers. Current AV technologies don't do this since bypassing them requires this five line Python script which I believe the malware authors have automated." Forcing your opponent to use expensive tools is good strategy. Likewise, choosing to invest in an expensive infrastructure can be good strategy. I believe BinNavi and Immunity Debugger fit this category. In terms of infrastructure, the US .com and .mil communities decided to save money and purchase a mono-culture of Microsoft technologies. Bad strategies like this result in flailing and moaning as you get defeated over and over by someone with better strategy, not because the battlefield is inherently asymmetric. - -dave -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.6 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Mozilla - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHR/7otehAhL0gheoRAkI2AJ92y1bSv1xnoS3sInPJCvQzV6O/YgCfbI/G P7xpPdZkw4cYW919WBV4GuI= =JAP5 -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- _______________________________________________ Dailydave mailing list Dailydave () lists immunitysec com http://lists.immunitysec.com/mailman/listinfo/dailydave
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