APT Landscape
The Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) landscape has changed dramatically in the past 10 years. In the early days of the Internet, hackers wanted to prove they could break into a system and cause a disruption to demonstrate their superior skills, but today the methods and motives are quite different. There are three characteristics of the new reality: the sophistication of the attacks has evolved, the attacks are targeted at specific organizations or individuals, and the intent of the adversary is to maintain a long term presence on the targeted system. Read more
APTs and Financial Markets
APTs in the financial market have introduced a couple of new dimensions. First of all, the barrier to entry has fallen from a cost perspective, meaning the capital investment to conduct an attack is negligible compared to the benefit. As a result, the types of adversaries are formidable, ranging from rogue nation states to organized crime. Read more
Approaches to Managing Risk
As our appreciation for the capability of APTs increases there comes a point when we realized you will never know if your system is secure. It becomes evident that we can’t keep every unauthorized user off our networks. As a result, we must learn how to live in a degraded or compromised system.
Firewalls, intrusion detection, antivirus and other infrastructure protections are still required and are the bedrock of a good security program, but they are no longer enough. Good security tools and practices are necessary to maintain general order on the Read more
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