Advanced Persistent Threat: Understanding the Danger and How to Protect Your Organization

by Eric Cole

Overview

The newest threat to security has been categorized as the Advanced Persistent Threat or APT. The APT bypasses most of an organization’s current security devices, and is typically carried out by an organized group, such as a foreign nation state or rogue group with both the capability and the intent to persistently and effectively target a specific entity and wreak havoc. Most organizations do not understand how to deal with it and what is needed to protect their network from compromise. In Advanced Persistent Threat: Understanding the Danger and How to Protect your Organization Eric Cole discusses the critical information that readers need to know about APT and how to avoid being a victim.

Advanced Persistent Threat is the first comprehensive manual that discusses how attackers are breaking into systems and what to do to protect and defend against these intrusions.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781597499491
Publisher:	Elsevier Science
Publication date:	11/13/2012
Pages:	320
Product dimensions:	7.40(w) x 9.20(h) x 0.80(d)

About the Author

Dr. Eric Cole is an industry recognized security expert, technology visionary and scientist, with over 15 year’s hands-on experience. Dr. Cole currently performs leading edge security consulting and works in research and development to advance the state of the art in information systems security. Dr. Cole has over a decade of experience in information technology, with a focus on perimeter defense, secure network design, vulnerability discovery, penetration testing, and intrusion detection systems. Dr. Cole has a Masters in Computer Science from NYIT, and Ph.D. from Pace University with a concentration in Information Security. Dr. Cole is the author of several books to include Hackers Beware, Hiding in Plain Site, Network Security Bible and Insider Threat. He is also the inventor of over 20 patents and is a researcher, writer, and speaker for SANS Institute and faculty for The SANS Technology Institute, a degree granting institution.

Table of Contents

Section I: Understanding the Problem

Chapter 1: The Changing Threat

Chapter 2: Why Are Organizations Being Compromised

Chapter 3: How Are Organizations Being Compromised

Chapter 4: Risk Based Approach to Security

Section II: Emerging Trends

Chapter 5: Protecting Your Data

Chapter 6: Prevention is Ideal but Detection is a Must

Chapter 7: Respond and Recover

Chapter 8: Technologies for Success

Section III: The Future and How to Win

Chapter 9: The Changing Landscape: Cloud and Mobilization

Chapter 10 : Proactive Security and Reputational Ranking

Chapter 11: Focusing in on the Right Security

Chapter 12: Implementing Adaptive Security

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Editorial Reviews

"Cole explains why advanced persistence threats are able to bypass security measures on many large computer systems and recommends how to protect an organization's data from these well-organized attackers." —Reference and Research Book News, August 2013

"This book should come in handy to anyone who's tasked with protecting an organization's networks… definitely worth it, as it is clear, concise, and thought provoking." —HelpNetSecurity.com, February 2013

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