Apply attacker knowledge to your own environment.

Once you understand how reconnaissance works, the next step is to assess where you’re vulnerable. Developers can map attacker techniques directly to their systems and workflows.

• For developers: Perform SBOM analysis. Identify unmaintained dependencies. Threat-model critical flows (authentication, file uploads, deployments). Run a “blast radius” exercise: what if your publish token was stolen?
• For leaders: Evaluation translates into measurable risk awareness. It creates a prioritised list of exposures you can fund, schedule, or report against.

Pitch point: This stage turns abstract “security concerns” into concrete, ranked items. That means better ROI on security investments — and fewer surprises.