Theories for Combating the Advanced Persistant Threat
Todd Meedel
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New Cyber Policies For Combating the Advanced Persistent Threats
When we stand back and look at the various cyber threats that are currently being employed in the world, and attempt to prioritize those threats, you will quickly see that the most serious threat seems to emanate from a family of viruses called Advanced Persistent Threat; it is this virus type which seems to poses the greatest risk towards the United State. This is the type of threat that is currently being used against the United States by hostile governments around the world. However this is also the class of virus that it being used by the United States to conduct cyber operations against nations that pose a threat to the United States or its allies.
You may ask yourself, what is the Advance Persistent Threat (APT)? According to the website Dambella the APT is defined as “a cybercrime category of malware that is directed at business and political targets. APTs require a high degree of stealithiness over a prolonged duration of operation in order to be successful. The attack objectives therefore typically extend beyond immediate financial gain, and compromised systems continue to be of service even after key systems have been breached and initial goals reached.”
Advanced – what does the term advanced mean? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Advanced as “greatly developed beyond an initial stage”. In the world of cybercrime and cyber warfare this can only mean that those people who are initiating attacks are doing so by using methodologies and techniques that use the entire range of intrusion tools. Often the Advanced portion of the APT finds the attackers using multiple simple exploits simultaneously in a tiered attack. Thus allows for a multiple layered attack using multiple threat vectors to attack a single target, while using different technologies to achieve a common goal.
Persistent - Looking at the Merriam-Webster dictionary we can see that
Det 630
New Cyber Policies For Combating the Advanced Persistent Threats
When we stand back and look at the various cyber threats that are currently being employed in the world, and attempt to prioritize those threats, you will quickly see that the most serious threat seems to emanate from a family of viruses called Advanced Persistent Threat; it is this virus type which seems to poses the greatest risk towards the United State. This is the type of threat that is currently being used against the United States by hostile governments around the world. However this is also the class of virus that it being used by the United States to conduct cyber operations against nations that pose a threat to the United States or its allies.
You may ask yourself, what is the Advance Persistent Threat (APT)? According to the website Dambella the APT is defined as “a cybercrime category of malware that is directed at business and political targets. APTs require a high degree of stealithiness over a prolonged duration of operation in order to be successful. The attack objectives therefore typically extend beyond immediate financial gain, and compromised systems continue to be of service even after key systems have been breached and initial goals reached.”
Advanced – what does the term advanced mean? The Merriam-Webster dictionary defines Advanced as “greatly developed beyond an initial stage”. In the world of cybercrime and cyber warfare this can only mean that those people who are initiating attacks are doing so by using methodologies and techniques that use the entire range of intrusion tools. Often the Advanced portion of the APT finds the attackers using multiple simple exploits simultaneously in a tiered attack. Thus allows for a multiple layered attack using multiple threat vectors to attack a single target, while using different technologies to achieve a common goal.
Persistent - Looking at the Merriam-Webster dictionary we can see that