Structural Evolution and Quantitative Analysis of the Cyber Attack Lifecycle: A Multi-Framework Integration of the Cyber Kill Chain and the Unified Kill Chain
Shankar Prasad Mitra·Abhik Bhattacharya·Debmalya Mukherjee·Ankita Sinha·Ranjan Banerjee·Ananya Smruti Snigdha Ojha·Sulagna Basu·Swarnabha Chakraborty·Kaushik Paul
The conceptualization of cybersecurity has fundamentally shifted from a reactive, perimeter-baseddefense posture to an intelligence-driven, proactive paradigm centered on the understanding of theadversarial lifecycle.1 At the nexus of this shift is the Cyber Kill Chain, a methodology adapted frommilitary targeting doctrine that identifies the structured phases an adversary must complete to achieve astrategic objective.1 As organizations navigate an increasingly complex threat landscape character