What term refers to the guideline that describes how an attacker performs their attack from beginning to end?

• A. Tactics
• B. Techniques
• C. Procedures
• D. TTPs

Answer: (A)

Tactics describe the attacker’s high-level goals and the overall sequence of actions they aim to accomplish throughout an attack, from initial access to impact. This makes them the best fit for a guideline that maps how an attack unfolds from start to finish, because they outline the stages the attacker intends to go through and what they’re trying to achieve at each step.

Techniques are the specific methods used to reach a tactic, and procedures are the exact steps or playbooks to execute a technique in a given environment. TTPs is the umbrella term that includes tactics, techniques, and procedures as a whole.