The cyber intent strategy is to seek out the reconnaissance traffic that precedes an attack and manipulate it so well that the attack never succeeds. Leveraging and countering malicious cyber intent as your earliest defense draws from information warfare. Investing a small misdirection here could pay dividends later.

The opportunity to harness and change the outcome of an attack based on perceiving malicious intent during the very first stage of an attack is often overlooked. When this type of traffic is simply blocked the opportunity to do more with it is lost. In the best-case scenario, the successful application of a cyber intent strategy completely disrupts an imminent attack. In the worst-case scenario cyber intent-powered defenses elevate the stealthy adversary to pop up on the radar of traditional security defenses.