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Last updated: April 29, 2026
Networks fail in five ways: complete outage, partial outage, latency increase, packet loss, partial reachability. Each masks security signals.
Networks fail in five ways: complete outage, partial outage, latency increase, packet loss, partial reachability. Each masks security signals.
“Latency spike for one user” might be QoS issue or might be MITM. “Partial reachability between subnets” might be misconfig or attacker-installed firewall rule. Defender must rule out malicious cause.
The mindset: every “network issue” should trigger a 5-minute “is this an attack?” check.
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