Actor types
Organizations must consider threats from many different sources, from the unsophisticated script kiddie to government-sponsored attacks involving nation-state actors. We must also consider attacks from cybercriminals – at present, organized crime is the fastest-growing adversary. In over half of reported cases, major information system breaches can be attributed to insiders. We will highlight these threat actors in the following section.
Advanced persistent threat – nation-state
APTs are persistent in nature and have a strong determination to compromise your systems, typically using advanced techniques, and often have access to high-level resources (nation-states).
As APTs are difficult to detect and highly sophisticated, they may remain unknown for many months or years.
Cybersecurity professionals have labeled all the known adversaries and collected evidence of tools and activities undertaken by these adversaries. There are over 30 known APT groups...