Preemptive Defense at Machine Speed: Validating an Early Warning Indicator for IoT Camera Exploitation on a Cyber Range

Nation-state adversaries are increasingly exploiting Internet-facing IoT edge devices as pre-kinetic sensors to conduct strategic reconnaissance, targeting correction, and post-strike battle damage assessment. Traditional reactive security architectures—reliant on static signatures and post-incident telemetry—fail to detect these subtle, out-of-band anomalies before physical or operational damage occurs. This technical white paper presents the architecture and empirical validation […]