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Active Counter Defense™

Defense that doesn’t wait to be hit. Know who your adversary is, how they operate and what they want from you. Then take them down before they settle in.

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01Know themAdversary-informed hunting
02Mislead themDeception
03Contain themContainment
04Take them downInfrastructure takedown
Runs continuously · inside your estate or through lawful channels

Most defense waits to be hit.

Active Counter Defense goes after the adversary from the moment they show interest. Four steps, run continuously, all inside your estate or through lawful channels. We never hack back.

01

Know them.

ADVERSARY-INFORMED HUNTING

Profile the actors targeting your sector and region, then hunt for their techniques in your telemetry before any alert fires.

irate / huntssample data
NG-SIEMhigh
Behavioral beaconing
T1071T1571
NG-SIEMhigh
ClickFix run-dialog
T1204T1059.003
NG-SIEMcritical
Dumping / DCSync
T1003.006
NG-SIEMmedium
Shadow SaaS exfiltration
T1526
02

Mislead them.

DECEPTION

Decoy accounts, credentials and systems that no legitimate user ever touches. Any interaction is a high-confidence signal and wastes the attacker’s time.

03

Contain them.

CONTAINMENT

Isolate hosts, revoke sessions and disable accounts. Each action is proposed with evidence, executed with your approval and verified afterwards.

irate / reviewed actionsample data
Reviewed action · Microsoft Sentinel incident
Current
Status: Active
Classification: Not set
Owner: Unassigned
Proposed
Status: Closed
Classification: True positive
Confirm in MicrosoftProposal expires in 15 min · re-checked against live state before applying
04

Take them down.

INFRASTRUCTURE TAKEDOWN

Phishing domains, command-and-control servers and look-alike sites reported to registrars, hosting providers and CERTs until they are taken offline.

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Is this hack-back?

No. Everything happens inside your own environment or through lawful channels such as registrar and hosting-provider abuse processes and national CERTs.

Do we need all four?

No. Most clients start with adversary-informed hunting and containment, and add deception and takedown as their programme matures.

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