Use Case: Cyber Threat Prevention

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Cyber Threat Prevention

Abstraction Level (High, Medium or Low): High

Related Use Cases:

• Sub-use-case of Managing Cyber Threat Response Activities

Description: Cyber decision makers evaluate potential preventative courses of action for identified relevant threats and select appropriate actions for implementation. Cyber operations personnel implement selected courses of action in order to prevent the occurrence of specific cyber threats whether through general prophylactic application of mitigations or through specific targeted mitigations initiated by predictive interpretation of leading indicators. For example, in the case of a confirmed phishing attack with defined indicators, a cyber decision maker may evaluate a suggested preventative course of action (e.g., implementing a blocking rule at the email gateway) defined within an indicator for the phishing attack, determine its relevant cost and risk, and decide whether or not to implement it. If it is decided to implement the suggested course of action, cyber operations personnel carry out the implementation.

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