Elevate your Threat Detections using the Almighty Pyramid of Pain

Adam Goss
8 min readJan 24, 2023

Hey friend, welcome back!

Today we will be taking a look at “The Pyramid of Pain” and how you can make bad guys cry.

The pyramid is an illustration that shows how some IOCs (Indicators of Compromise) are more difficult for an adversary to change than others. Its creator, David J Bianco, claims that denying the adversary certain…

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Adam Goss

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