In this chapter, you will learn about some of the traditional techniques and methods commonly used by military and corporate organizations to counter threats and adversaries. This chapter shows how deception can be used as a tool to lure or push your threats into areas of your enterprise that you have prepared for proactive responses or countermeasures. It makes heavy use of military-based deception techniques, concepts, and vernacular, as most forms of formal deception were derived from military operations and constructs throughout the years.As you read through this chapter, you will see how deception has been used traditionally, and how the basic concepts and best practices can easily be applied to the cyber realm of advanced, organized, and persistent threats across your enterprise.How Does Deception Fit in Countering Cyber Threats?From the moment I picked your book up until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it.—Groucho MarxThere is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact.—Arthur Conan Doyle Simply put, deception is a technique whereby we mislead people into believing information that prompts them to behave in a way that is favorable to us, while at the same time protecting our true intentions and posture.
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