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Every organization faces a threat landscape that evolves as quickly as military battlefields do. By borrowing four core cyber warfare principles—understanding your digital terrain, deploying deception, acting at cyber speed, and thinking ahead—you can strengthen your corporate security posture. These ideas translate directly into actions you can take today, powered by tools like Fidelis Elevate. In this blog, you’ll see why each principle matters, how it breaks down into clear steps, and how to use Fidelis to put them into practice.
Attackers look for gaps in your defenses and hidden paths into your network. Without a full inventory of assets—servers, workstations, cloud services, and encrypted tunnels—you remain blind to critical exposures. A comprehensive map of your corporate threat landscape lets you spot those gaps and lock them down. Proactive terrain awareness shifts you from reacting to incidents toward preventing them.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate fuses network traffic inspection and endpoint telemetry into a single, dynamic map. Its sensors capture rich metadata—JA3 fingerprints, session timing, byte counts—so you always see every encrypted and plaintext connection in real time.
In warfare, decoys draw enemy fire and reveal their tactics. Similarly, believable decoys in your network lure attackers into revealing themselves. By placing fake servers, credentials, or documents in strategic locations, you turn stealthy intruders into visible targets. Early detection through deception multiplies your defensive resources.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate’s built-in deception module automates decoy creation and management. When an attacker engages a decoy, the platform immediately generates a clear alert with full session context, enabling you to isolate and investigate before real assets are touched.
Once an adversary gains a foothold, every minute counts. Manual intervention slows response and lets attackers move laterally. Automated playbooks let you quarantine devices, block malicious IPs, or sever suspect encrypted sessions in seconds. Fast action stops threats before they escalate into full breaches.
How Fidelis helps: With Fidelis Elevate, you link detection alerts—from network, endpoint, and deception—to pre-built response playbooks. Whether it’s dropping an encrypted session or quarantining a workstation, actions occur instantly and are logged for audit and follow-up.
Military planners study enemy tactics to anticipate their next steps. You can do the same by modeling likely cyber warfare attacks—from credential dumping to covert DNS tunneling. Predictive models guide threat hunting and help you harden the most vulnerable areas. This forward-looking stance turns you from a reactive responder into a proactive defender.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate’s efficient metadata store and behavioral analytics let you run ad-hoc hunts across weeks of encrypted traffic and endpoint logs. You can query for specific JA3 fingerprints, certificate anomalies, or DNS patterns—giving you a head start on spotting new attack campaigns.
A clear terrain map is the starting point for every defense. Start by deploying Fidelis network sensors and endpoint agents to collect metadata everywhere. The goal is to capture enterprise network traffic inspection data—both encrypted and unencrypted—and match it with endpoint events. Once in place, you’ll see your complete digital topology.
How Fidelis helps: Sensors capture over 300 attributes per session, while agents feed host-level details into a unified console. This joint view highlights overlooked assets and hidden connections in real time.
Effective deception requires believable traps interwoven with real assets. Identify high-value zones—like credential stores or critical servers—and seed them with decoys. The more realistic your decoys appear, the more likely attackers will interact with them—and expose themselves.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate automates decoy rollout, matching real-world configurations. Every decoy interaction generates a high-confidence alert, complete with session metadata for rapid response.
Integration is key—alerts from network, endpoint, and deception must feed into the same workflow. Configure Fidelis playbooks to take immediate action on combined signals: isolate an infected machine, block a malicious IP, or drop a suspect encrypted session. This orchestration keeps your defense one step ahead.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate’s unified alert engine ties together encrypted traffic anomalies, endpoint alerts, and deception triggers. Playbooks execute within seconds, ensuring that threats are contained automatically without manual delays.
How Fidelis helps: Fidelis Elevate’s efficient metadata storage and intuitive search tools let analysts pivot quickly between queries, dashboards, and response actions. This empowers your team to detect and disrupt campaigns that slip past real-time defenses.
Bringing these cyber warfare principles to life requires a clear, structured approach that balances planning, execution, and continuous improvement. Before you begin, ensure you have stakeholder buy-in and the necessary permissions to deploy sensors and agents across your network and endpoints. You’ll also want to gather basic network topology information and asset inventories to guide sensor placement and decoy deployment. This blueprint will walk you through each phase—visibility, deception, automation, and hunting—so you can roll out Fidelis Elevate smoothly and with confidence. By following these steps, you’ll transform raw telemetry into actionable insights and automated defenses that operate at the speed of today’s threats.
Applying cyber warfare principles in corporate security isn’t about grand metaphors about clear, actionable steps: map your terrain, set traps, move at cyber speed, and hunt proactively. Fidelis Elevate brings these ideas to life with unified encrypted traffic inspection, built-in deception, real-time responses, and predictive hunting.
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