Dealing with APTs
The tactics covered in this book aim to defend your infrastructure against the most common types of attacks and threat vectors. However, there is one type of threat that we have not covered yet – a type of attack that, due to the complexity involved, is believed to be backed by the government and various organizations. This attack is called APTs.
In this type of attack, the attackers use a variety of tactics, techniques, and resources to gain sustained access over an extended period of time to disrupt or spy on a given set of systems to achieve a given goal, such as the following examples:
- Steal intellectual property or trade secrets.
- Obtain a continuous flow of sensitive information.
- Sabotage a given infrastructure, system, or process.
- Reroute funds.
As we mentioned previously, these are very organized attacks, normally performed by a coordinated group in which the main goal is not to gain access, but to remain undetected, which...
