
How Can Attackers Get In My Network?
There are lots of ways for an attacker to get into your network, but several common ways are used over and over by bad guys. Let’s briefly review the most common entry points.
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There are lots of ways for an attacker to get into your network, but several common ways are used over and over by bad guys. Let’s briefly review the most common entry points.

While there are several possible ways to group potential hackers, I like to categorize them based on their motivation for attacking a network. Using this basis, there are probably six different types of attackers that may be attacking your network.

Part of what makes the need for cybersecurity so hard to understand is that most of us really can’t “see” cyber attacks taking place against our network. But cyberattacks are real, and we need to be prepared for them to happen.