Narnaiezzsshaa Truong

Minimal APR-Aligned Incident Response Playbook Defender-Chain Compromise: Identity Trust Collapse, Boundary Inversion, and Substrate Integrity Restoration

2026 · Zenodo (CERN European Organization for Nuclear Research)

Defender-chain compromise—the class of attack in which the Windows Defender security substrate is tampered with to blind the defender before lateral movement and identity abuse proceed—requires an incident response approach that is substrate-aware, not merely …