These capabilities provide varying levels of signal interruption or communications jamming to the malicious code, blocking its ability to complete its action on objective.

The figure below depicts a cybersecurity portfolio with various cybersecurity capabilities that can break the chain of malicious activity against an enterprise. In one sense, the CKC demonstrates that if the communication chain can be broken, you can neutralize the effect of malicious code and disable its ability to achieve its action on objective. The malicious code or malware depends heavily on its network communications media to perform various nefarious activities and implement many stages of its exploit. military, cybersecurity capabilities are available to an enterprise in various phases of this malicious software's 'lifecycle' and can be deployed to counter these attacks. Much like the counter-IED initiatives developed by the U.S. Although the CKC has been used mostly on data exfiltration as the 'action on objectives,' a similar approach can be depicted for ransomware, with lockup of your digital assets as the intended final outcome. The IED analogy has been leveraged in the Lockheed Martin Corporation Cyber Kill Chain (CKC), which depicts the stages of cyber attack in a process-based approach (again, this imagery has its limitations).

This analogy has its limitations however, here I want to explore the idea of disrupting communications from malicious code such as ransomware that is used to lock up your digital assets, or data-exfiltration software that is used to steal your digital data. For some time now, the cyber world has also been under attack by a diffused set of enemies who improvise their own tools in many different varieties and hide them where they can do much damage. This approach disrupts critical parts of RF communications, making the RCIED's communication to activate ineffective, saving both warfighter and civilian lives and property. One effective strategy was jamming or interrupting radio frequency (RF) communications to counter radio-controlled IEDs (RCIEDs).

The United States ramped up its development of counter-IED equipment to improve standoff detection of explosives and explosive precursor components and to defeat IEDs themselves as part of a broader defense capability. During the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan, insurgents' use of improvised explosive devices (IEDs) proliferated.

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