Lateral movement (cybersecurity)

Lateral movement refers to the techniques that cyber attackers, or threat actors, use to progressively move through a network as they search for the key data and assets that are ultimately the target of their attack campaigns.^[1][2][3] While the development of more sophisticated sequences of attack has helped threat actors develop better strategies and evade detection as compared to the past, similar to planning a heist, cyber defenders have also learned to use lateral movement against attackers in that they use it to detect their location and respond more effectively to an attack.^[1]

Lateral movement is a part of the ATT&CK framework within the 14 categories of Tactics, Techniques, and Procedures.^{[citation needed]}

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