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“Offensive strategy” in this context does not mean us attacking the attackers. But having an offensive strategy will cover how we go about defending ourselves against those who attack us, by having our defenses in place to mitigate the kinds of attack we can foresee being launched against our infrastructure. In addition to this, counterattacking whenever we see an attack against our infrastructure will quickly become unsustainable, because the IP address we see an attack coming from will undoubtedly not be the IP address of the real attacker. There is a very real risk that our counterattacking will cause damage to a completely innocent person or company whose system has been compromised earlier and just used for an attack against us.
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Madsen, T. (2019). Offensive Strategy. In: The Art of War for Computer Security. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-28569-2_4
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