How to prevent Living Off the Land (LOTL) attacks

This article explains living off the land (LOTL) attacks — how threat actors abuse built-in Windows tools such as PowerShell, WMI, rundll32, and the Registry to execute commands, persist, move laterally, and exfiltrate data — and discusses why these techniques are difficult to detect. It promotes a Zero Trust approach and ThreatLocker solutions (Allowlisting, Ringfencing, least-privilege controls) as measures to reduce LOTL risk and invites readers to learn more or book a demo.