Clearing the Field

Ending an operation is arguably just as important as starting an operation. Planning several end conditions early on with playbooks can help your team achieve their goals throughout the conflict. From the offensive perspective, after an operation, you will want to clean up the environment to ensure you are not caught or attributed to any breaches. In the event you've been detected, the offensive operations will need to save as much of the operations as they can, either pivoting deeper internally or by burning down their access and backing out of the target environment. If you are a defender, making sure that you've successfully scoped the intrusion is paramount. This is a daunting task, meaning the attacker has been properly identified with all assets they've compromised, the root cause of the compromise has been identified, and any evidence the defenders have collected has been exploited. After identifying and containing the attacker, the defense...