They do not begin with malware.
They begin with you.
Before a single exploit is launched, before a payload is dropped, adversaries are already inside your environment in a different way. They are mapping identity. They are tracing privilege. They are studying how trust flows between users, service accounts, cloud roles, and operational systems.
Identity is the primary battlefield of modern cyber warfare.
When identity collapses, it is not just data that falls. It is power grids. Pipelines. Hospitals. Manufacturing lines. The infrastructure people rely on to live.
You cannot defend what you do not see.
You cannot secure what you do not understand.
To defend your organization, you must learn to see what the adversary sees.
Identity Is the Battlefield
In this episode of Through the Eyes of the Adversary, OccupyTheWeb (Master OTW) joins Anders Askasen to expose what hides beneath inherited trust and fragmented visibility.
Drawing from real-world cyber operations, Master OTW walks through how attackers assess targets long before they touch critical infrastructure.
Modern cyber warfare rarely starts with exploits.
It starts with identity.
From a hacker’s perspective, digital identity is one of the fastest and quietest paths into an organization. Privileges accumulate. Service accounts sprawl. Credentials go stale. Systems trust one another without question.
Attackers do not need to break in when identity already opens the door.
What Attackers Look For
his session reveals the upstream conditions adversaries search for when profiling a target:
- Fragmented identity data across IT and OT systems
- Over-privileged accounts with inherited access
- Unmanaged service accounts and machine identities
- Stale credentials that were never revoked
- Blind trust relationships between systems
These blind spots allow lateral movement without noise. Persistence without alerts. Escalation without triggering traditional controls.
Organizations often believe their operational technology is isolated. Attackers look for the quiet bridges between environments. The shared credentials. The replicated directories. The hidden trust assumptions.
Identity boundaries do not collapse loudly. They collapse silently.
Join the Session
Join OccupyTheWeb (Master OTW) and Anders Askasen for a deep look into how adversaries think, how they map identity, and how they move without detection.
See your environment through the eyes of the adversary.
Register for the free Radiant Logic webinar on Feb 24 at 11am EST:
Source: HackersArise
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