Threats

The mainstay declares that threats embolden adversaries to exploit vulnerabilities that expose assets that enable their objectives. That is the basic idea behind a cyber threat. The most important thing to know about cybersecurity threats is that the actors who enact them may be dangerous adversaries. The second most important thing to know is that there is an interaction between an adversary and its target whether or not the target chooses to actively participate. In the threat actor landscape, actors with diverse objectives often find kindred spirits in organized crime syndicates that are similar to legitimate technology businesses. Threat actors spend considerable time and energy in reconnaissance to identify vulnerabilities in their target's systems. In cyber security, potential attacks are the aggregated set of all publicly documented cyber attacks to date.