How serious is the threat from an APT?

Asked By coury timmons 20 points N/A Posted on - 12/24/2014

How could and  advanced persistent threat affect my network? What is the techniques used in these type of attacks? What does persistent imply here? Does this activity arise from human involvement or is it software at work here? How can I identify if my network is under attack and what can I do to stem such an attack?

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Answered By Shelock kate 0 points N/A #159982

How serious is the threat from an APT?

An Advanced persistent threat(ATP) is an attack in which criminal

elements gain access to the network and remain undetected over a 

long period of time.The ATPs are not meant to cause damage to a 

network but only to steal the data from the network.

In ATPs attackers use spear fishing tools to hack the network.As soon 

as he/she gains the control backdoor is created.

The sole attack through ATP is done manually and no software is used

to accomplish the task.

Though it's highly difficult to identify the attacks, the one way to

catch them is to detect the

ATP-LIFE-CYCLE

 

 

anamolies of outbound data.

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