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Tag: pre-positioning

  • PLAYING THE LONG GAME

    Persistent Access and Strategic Cyber Pre-positioning by Hostile States PURPOSE: A threat-led, public-evidence review for government security assurance. The focus is not the spectacular end-state attack, but the quieter activity that creates and preserves the option to act later. CENTRAL QUESTION: What changes if we treat persistent, privileged and difficult-to-evict access as a strategic capability…