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Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks, described as being ultra-sophisticated cyber-attacks against an organization and its assets, are digital assaults launched by highly skilled cybercriminals that harvest valuable information over the long term; attacks are orderly and persistent. APTs are specific threats that are targeting messaging and content delivery servers, where an attacker delivers targeted malware in an attempt to leverage information from the source.

In recent times, cyber criminals have been responsible for a number of Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks. This type of cyber attack often comes from well-coordinated and funded individuals having very specific objectives; in fact, they are often directed at business and political targets. What makes APT attacks different from any other cyber offense is the scope, as they exploit vulnerabilities not to disrupt systems but, mostly, to collect sensitive data.

With this in mind, users ought to understand more about APT activities and, just as important, know how they can proceed to employ additional layers of defense in their architecture, as well as supplement their information security strategies with new policies, processes, and technical controls to improve detection capabilities. Promptly deploying newer technologies to track and trace attackers is the only way to identify suspicious objects and actions from security event data feed that alert of high-risk events occurring.

Software security assurance solutions and services we offer include:

Insider Threat Assessment

Insider Threat Assessment team examines your organization’s mission, assets, information technology, business processes, workforce and management of human behavior issues to determine where its vulnerabilities lie. Vulnerabilities may arise from your information systems, business processes and many other domains. We work with information technology, management, human resources, contracting, procurement, general counsel, security and other functional teams in your organization to identify vulnerabilities and find solutions that will work for your organization.

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT)

Advanced Persistent Threats (APT) is a threat in the form of a highly skilled motivated attacker with determined objectives to cause Intellectual property, reputation and financial and data loss for the targeted organization. To pursue its objective APT operates over an extensive period of time on the targeted organizations environment by resisting its sophisticated security mechanisms.

Our APT Assessment helps in identifying, containing and eradicating these sophisticated threats from your environment. We also help organizations in identifying the missing controls and provide them support to build necessary defensive controls and expertise against such attacks in future.

Identify risks and vulnerabilities to the sensitive internal resources and organizational data assets against those without authorization from an insider perspective.

Our insider threat assessment determines where your organization is susceptible to insider threat and proposes solutions that reduce your organization’s risk exposure to IP theft, Information Technology (IT) sabotage and fraud.

When it comes to cybersecurity, it is important to be able to identify the latest advanced cyber-based attacks by new adversaries that target government agencies and enterprises (private and public). Although some attacks can be highly complex and difficult to detect and counter, many intrusions could be simply avoided by endpoint users taking a proactive, preventive approach to security. Since malware is often infiltrated by exploiting vulnerabilities created by tactics like social engineering, it is paramount that users, first, are fully aware of all behaviors that put them at risk and the consequences of even the slightest slip-up.

APT is deemed a serious and dangerous threat because of its nature to stay undetected for a long duration. APT malware is designed to evade detection from conventional perimeter security defenses (firewalls, IDS, IPS, endpoint protection platforms and secure Web gateways). APT mitigation and detection capabilities need to be incorporated in a security defense-in-depth strategy and architecture, to protect enterprises from attacks of this complexity.

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