Question

Explain and discuss General Hayden’s CND-CNE-CNA triangle. What is an “attack” and what is not.

Answer 1

Attack Includes actions taken via computer networks to disrupt, deny, degrade, or destroy the information within computers and computer networks and/or the computers/networks themselves. Basic Network Attacks in Computer Network are DoS (Denial of Service),Man-in-the-Middle Attack,Phishing,Compromised-Key Attack,Packet sniffer,etc.....

• actions taken via computer networks to protect, analyze, monitor, detect and respond to network attacks, disruptions, intrusions, enabling actions and intelligence collection via computer networks that exploit data gathered from target, are not under attacks they come under Defense and Exploitation.