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Pivot

Term · Cybersecurity · MLC-T-CYB-003146

The act of an attacker moving from one compromised system to one or more other systems within the same or other organizations. Pivoting is fundamental to the success of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. SSH trust relationships may more readily allow an attacker to pivot.

Table 1. Record
IdentifierMLC-T-CYB-003146
FieldCybersecurity
ReferencesNISTIR 7966; NIST CSRC Glossary
Record as JSON 
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  "id": "MLC-T-CYB-003146",
  "term": "Pivot",
  "field": "Cybersecurity",
  "definition": "The act of an attacker moving from one compromised system to one or more other systems within the same or other organizations. Pivoting is fundamental to the success of advanced persistent threat (APT) attacks. SSH trust relationships may more readily allow an attacker to pivot.",
  "references": [
    "NISTIR 7966",
    "NIST CSRC Glossary"
  ],
  "url": "https://mlchart.com/terminology/cybersecurity/pivot/"
}

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