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Attack by Fire

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The title of this chapter seems a little aggressive, I know. But, for an attacker, keeping the organization or business under attack stressed and confused is a win, since the staff handling the attack will be unable to see through the “fog of war” to see the real attack unfolding behind all the smoke coming from attacks trying to mask the real attack.

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Madsen, T. (2019). Attack by Fire. In: The Art of War for Computer Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28569-2_10

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