Even those attackers who are deploying more targeted, advanced attacks against a specific industry or organization will reuse the same techniques and exploit code in targeted attacks against similar organizations in the same industry. Another tool in the attacker\u2019s arsenal is that they are highly adept at sharing information with each other. Why wouldn\u2019t defenders likewise collaborate on the source, tools and techniques used for these attacks and reap the tremendous benefits of threat sharing? Not to mention that such collaboration among defenders can also increase the costs associated with executing these attacks.<\/p>\n
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Once an attacker has targeted any member of a collaborative platform, command-and-control servers are easily identified by their IP addresses throughout the network. This means that attackers can no longer benefit from the isolation of their targets; they must use a new IP for each attack that they launch. Instead of being able to launch thousands of attacks from a single IP, they have to pay the cost of acquiring a number of IPs that is proportional to the number of attacks they wish to mount.<\/p>\n
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Additionally, an attacker\u2019s tools and tactics become much less effective when defenders collaborate to protect themselves from the attacker.<\/p>\n
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