What is a major goal of adversarial cyber operations?

• A. To compromise infrastructure and steal military and technological data.
• B. To deploy software updates to improve performance.
• C. To enhance customer experience on apps.
• D. To reduce attack surface by closing ports.

Answer: (A)

Adversarial cyber operations are driven by gaining unauthorized access to systems and extracting valuable information, including sensitive military and technological data. That objective—accessing infrastructure and stealing data—is what attackers seek to achieve to gain intelligence, advantages, or disrupt capabilities. The other options describe defensive tasks or neutral services (deploying updates to improve performance, enhancing customer experience, or reducing exposure by closing ports) that do not reflect what an attacker is aiming to accomplish.