How could Smaug survive “the Black Arrow” Attack?

As you know, Smaug was unable to withstand the Black Arrow attack at the beginning of The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies. There were a number of mistakes made by Smaug and his team. As a security engineer, I would like to offer some advice to Smaug and his team. I hope this list will help to save many dragons’ lives and their businesses.

Insufficient Logging and Monitoring

In this instance, the crisis started when the dwarves used a backdoor to penetrate the mountain. A time-based backdoor was set up by the dwarfs to get access to the mountain. They accomplished this using cutting-edge weaponry. Smaug’s crew should have gotten a notification upon entering the mountain upon initial entry.

Some areas of Lonely Mountain were not under Smaug’s supervision. He was unaware of the entry because of this. He should to have understood the need of keeping an eye on all areas and resources.

Vulnerability Management

Smaug has been prone to vulnerability for a long time. Several GitHub repositories have proof of concept (POC) for this vulnerability. Even the CISA known vulnerability list includes it. Because they considered this upkeep to be of a medium level and challenging to script, Smaug was unable to do it.

What were they to do? The best course of action would be putting in a new armor piece. They may employ mithril or other battle armor if they were unable to locate a replacement component.

“My armor is like tenfold shields, my teeth are swords, my claws spears, the shock of my tail is a thunderbolt, my wings a hurricane, and my breath death!” SMAUG

Cyber Threat Intelligent

It is clear from this that the trojen backdoor was a sophisticated weapon developed specifically for Erebor.

The Smaug’s team should have regularly searched Twitter, Telegram, and the whole Middle Earth Dark Web for any form of weapon. They need to thoroughly examine the platforms to look for any information about their infrastructure. A Gray Wizzard identified the essential item for climbing Lonely Mountain. The Smaug need to have been informed and asked to examine the key’s adjustment.

Understand DevSecOps Mindset

For Lake Town, Smaug made the decision to reveal his Fire feature. He did notcreate well designed plan. He intended to fight back against the “Gold Statue” attack.

The problem is Smaug not prepared to go release his feature to Lake Town. Before going live it should test its armor in the castle at the staging level.

Creating Strong SOC

That makes it clear that Smaug is acting strangely in response to Lake Town’s weak arrow attack. However, his team was unable to respond to these notifications. They also lack contemporary EDR solutions for their infrastructure. They should to have alerted the incident response team or Smaug so that the assault might have been mitigated or the attack surface reduced.

In Middle Earth, Smaug’s possessions and mountain were well known. This sort of strong, magnificent creature might be harmed by a lack of security maturity. Smaug should have taken care to protect his property.

From this instance, we all learnt a lot of things.

RIP Smaug