Secure Critical Systems and Intellectual Property Against APT

Advanced persistent threats (APTs) are becoming more and more prevalent, targeting any and all organizations that have some valuable intellectual property or are laterally connected to a target organization.
Companies need to know how to protect themselves from an attack, track and quantify an attack, respond to an attack, and ensure maintenance.
Enterprise users need to know what a spear phishing attack looks like and what they should watch for in order to mitigate against their manipulation.

Our Advice

Critical Insight

APTs are a real risk to most organizations, regardless of size, and most don’t properly know how to defend against one.
A multi-layered defence approach is needed with specific tracking and monitoring capabilities.

Impact and Result

Identify your risk posture that identifies the likelihood an advanced persistent threat would be carried out against your organization.
Prioritize your security gaps based on the importance and achievability of each measure to ensure you are successful in your role.
Build the necessary layered security to defend, respond, and investigate an attack to ensure when an attack does occur you are covered across all aspects.

Secure Critical Systems and Intellectual Property Against APT Research & Tools

1. Identify and understand the organization’s risk position

Identify if the organization is a target, and create a risk posture.

2. Assess current security measures and identify and prioritize gaps

Identify specific APT measures already in place and assess and grade security maturity and capability levels.

3. Prepare for an APT attack and build the necessary defenses

Stop or degrade any attack against the organization.

4. Implement a response plan and investigate capabilities

Respond to an attack and learn from it to actively evolve the security systems.

5. Estimate the costs to develop and implement the organization’s governance plans for APT security

Get the most effective security system against the best APTs that will have senior buy-in.

Protect yourself from being boarded and raided by cyber privateers.

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Authors

Wesley McPherson

James McCloskey

Search Code: 74211
Last Revised: February 14, 2014

TAGS:

Advanced Persistent Threat, apt, Cyber Warfare, Cyber Espionage, cyber crime, Cyber Sabotage, hacking, spear phishing, Advanced Malware, information security