Preventing Lateral Movement
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Guidance for preventing lateral movement in enterprise networks.
Adapted edition
- Document type
- Reference Guide
- Format
- DOCX
- Pages
- 6
- Language
- English
- Version
- 1.0
- Updated
- 2026-09-16
- Category
- Information security
- Licence
- Open Government Licence v3.0
Description
Guidance for preventing lateral movement in enterprise networks for organisational planning, review and training. NCSC guidance is advisory and should be applied to the organisation's own risks and obligations.
Contents
- Platform-specific guidance
- What is lateral movement?
- Why protect against lateral movement?
- Protecting your organisation
- 1. Protect credentials
- In summary:
- 2. Deploy good authentication practices
- 3. Protect high privilege accounts
- 4. Apply the principle of least privilege
- 5. Lock down devices
- 6. Segregate networks as sets
- In summary
- 7. Monitor networks
- 8. Consider using honeypots
- Source links
Source and licence
National Cyber Security Centre
AttributionNational Cyber Security Centre, “Preventing Lateral Movement” (8 February 2018), reused under the Open Government Licence v3.0.
ChangesAdapted 16 September 2026: converted the official HTML article into neutral text-only DOCX and PDF editions. Preserved article headings, paragraphs, lists and plain-text source-link destinations; normalized web whitespace and typographic punctuation; omitted site navigation, topic and download cards, images, logos, scripts, styles and page furniture.
Version history
- v1.016/09/2026