Does the term "novel attack" resonate with security teams? or does "unknown attack" resonate better? What would you consider novel/unknown attacks? Does your current threat detection solution detect novel/unknown attacks?

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Director of Information Security in Services (non-Government)a year ago

Novel attack resonates more. These attacks may include multiple stages and exploit vulnerabilities to perform an EDR bypass, C2, or ransomware. 

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CISO in Softwarea year ago

I always think of 0-day vulns and associated attacks as novel.

CISO (CISO) in Healthcare and Biotecha year ago

Novel attack certainly resonates more. Unknown attacks are only unknown until forensics figure it out.  A robust incident detection and response system (SIEM, UEBA, XDR) should be able to detect unusual activity and let your SOC investigate. them.

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