Defending Advanced Persistent Threats - Be Better Prepared to Face the Worst

2nd May 2016  By Jyothi Babu Thummala
 
We often hear news about emerging cyber security threats and attacks impacting every industry. With advanced malwares, zero day exploits and persistent threats, cyber-attacks are now becoming very sophisticated in nature.
 
Targeted attacks are seen from highly motivated attackers, well organized and resourced groups and even from state sponsored actors. Among these, the biggest security challenge that global security leaders are facing is Advanced Persistent Threats (APT).
                                                                           
APT, with its sophisticated and mercurial way of achieving its focused objectives, represents a fundamental shift in the traditional cyber-attack models. The first step in the APT attack lifecycle is breaking into systems by exploiting an enterprise end point system vulnerability, establishing a foothold. In the next step they escalate their privileges to laterally move and locate the servers of their interest to exfiltrate data. The final step is to tactfully cover the tracks after achieving the desired objectives, which in this case is data breach.
 
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