know your enemy
NOH yer EN-ih-mee
noʊ jər ˈɛnɪmiListen
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understand the motivations, capabilities, methods, and weaknesses of your adversary as thoroughly as possible in order to anticipate their actions and defeat them effectively; derived from Sun Tzu's Art of War, which states know your enemy and know yourself and you need not fear the result of a hundred battles; in cybersecurity the phrase underpins threat intelligence practice, adversary emulation, and red team operations that model real attackers to improve defensive posture against specific known threat actors
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