Question

In AoW, "If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle." "Select an information environment and explain/describe how you would know your cybersecurity actors/threats and your cybersecurity team."

Answer 1

As TAoW also points out, knowing ourselves is good but knowing only ourselves and not the enemy will cause a defeat for every victory we obtain; thereby a great foundation to ensure victories and our own security would be to know both the enemy and ourselves; an important thing would be to have a reliable way to store our data and information, which basically starts by thinking in the way our potential enemy would, thus we could counter such enemy's attack avoiding the data being compromised, so the set up of austere standards and guidelines regarding the data management approach within the organization is crucial, including all members of the team in awareness of such standards and the potential threats so they can be prepared and know what to do in each case due it would be embedded in their mindset and general culture of the whole team.