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Knowing Your

Attacker – A

Guide to the Cyber

Kill Chain: Part 2

CASSIDY
Tax & Accounting

by Richard Cassidy, Technical
Director – EMEA, (www. CCH® SureTax®
alertlogic.com)
I
n Part 1 we established the development of Communications
the Cyber Kill Chain, and the importance of
organisations understand the Cyber Kill chain
in order stay ahead and ensure their sensitive
data stays safe. Step 1 and 2 involved attackers
identifying the best members of sta to target,
and the deployment of their initial attack. In Part
2 we continue to explore the steps within the Are your telecom sales creating a growing tax liability?
chain, and how businesses can use this valuable
information to stop hackers before they can
wreak havoc.
When you resell telecom, you are responsible for the
STEP 3: COMMAND & CONTROL: With the tax liability from the products that you sell. Avoid
malware in place, the attackers can now begin a unfunded tax liabilities, interest and penalties by
“low and sloe” in-depth recon against the internal addressing your tax compliance needs from the start.
network. Within command and control over CCH SureTax Communications provides robust, real-
their victim’s computer, they can disable several
security controls on the machine, attempt to time, accurate tax calculations for telecom resellers
escalate privileges on the victim’s account, and with the reporting you need to stay in compliance.
create new user accounts with the privileged
access.
STEP 4: DISCOVER AND SPREAD: With 5/16 2016-0135-1
SalesTax.com/CCHSureTaxCommunications
unfettered access to the network, the hackers can
now begin to spread it across the organisations

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