Microsoft® Windows® Security Resource Kit, Second Edition

Chapter 2. Understanding Your Enemy

If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.

—The Art of War, Sun Tzu

In this chapter:
Knowing Yourself	16
Possessing Detailed Documentation on Your Network	16
Understanding the Level of Organizational Support You Receive	17
Identifying Your Attacker	17
What Motivates Attackers	21
Why Defending Networks Is Difficult	26

Although Sun Tzu’s classic military-strategy text, The Art of War, was written more than 2000 years before computers were invented, many of the statements it contains are relevant to ...