Home > Resources > Whitepapers > Advanced Persistent Threats: Moving from Detection to Prevention and Response

Advanced Persistent Threats: Moving from Detection to Prevention and Response

New modern threats and multistaged attacks are now impacting every industry. The FBI estimates losses associated with a single recent attack at more than $100 million. Increasingly, difficult-to-detect attacks are changing the security protection landscape and, subsequently, the enterprise security posture. These attacks occur at multiple different points across the network, making it more difficult for companies to detect and respond to them. The limitations of signature-based security products are well known, and advanced models of threat detection are on the rise. This paper examines the specialized threat analysis and protection (referred to by IDC as STAP) market along with technology that can help protect companies from the rise of advanced, sophisticated, and tailored malware.

Spotlight

Thales eSecurity

Thales eSecurity is the leader in advanced data security solutions and services, delivering trust wherever information is created, shared or stored. We ensure that company and government data is secure and trusted in any environment – on premise, in the cloud, in data centers and in big data environments – without sacrificing business agility. Security doesn’t just reduce risk, it’s an enabler of the digital initiatives that now permeate our daily lives – digital money, e-identities, healthcare, connected cars and with the internet of things (IoT) even household devices.

OTHER WHITEPAPERS

Security Operations Maturity Model

whitePaper | February 20, 2020

As the threat landscape continues to evolve, your cybersecurity efforts must follow suit. With your security operations center (SOC) at the core of your offense against threats, you must ensure that it can handle anything that comes its way. To be effective, you need to mature your SOC to stop threats early — before damage occurs. Whether your SOC is a virtual team of two to three or a 24x7 operation, maturing your security operations capabilities will help you achieve a faster mean time to detect (MTTD) and mean time to respond (MTTR) to cyberthreats. This white paper explores LogRhythm’s Security Operations Maturity Model (SOMM), which explains how to measure the effectiveness of your security operations. Through the model, you can learn how to mature your security operations capabilities, improving your resilience to cyberthreats.

CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization Guide

whitePaper | November 9, 2022

The CISA Stakeholder-Specific Vulnerability Categorization (SSVC) is a customized decision tree model that assists in prioritizing vulnerability response for the United States government (USG), state, local, tribal, and territorial (SLTT) governments; and critical infrastructure (CI) entities. This document serves as a guide for evaluating vulnerabilities using the CISA SSVC decision tree. The goal of SSVC is to assist in prioritizing the remediation of a vulnerability basedon the impact exploitation would have to the particular organization(s).

Guide to Cloud Security Posture Management Tools

whitePaper | June 16, 2023

Good cloud security hygiene starts with complete visibility into the security and compliance posture of every resource you deploy into your cloud. It’s one thing to achieve this visibility in a single cloud environment—you can lean heavily on the native monitoring and auditing tools of your cloud provider, using third-party solutions to fill in gaps (e.g., threat detection)—but in a multi-cloud architecture, maintaining robust cloud security posture becomes exponentially more complex. It is much more difficult to achieve centralized visibility as well as consistently enforce policies and compliance rules within a multi-cloud environment. It’s also more complicated to detect threats and fix vulnerabilities quickly due to the sheer complexity of threats across distributed, multilayered architectures. You can address these challenges, though—and you need to, if you want to take advantage of multi-cloud architecture without compromising on security.

Cloud Native Security Model

whitePaper | December 23, 2022

Moving to the cloud is more than a technical transition to a new platform. It is a core part of an enterprise's growth strategy and while strategically important, it can also be potentially disruptive.

Pulumi Cloud Security Whitepaper

whitePaper | October 24, 2022

Pulumi is a venture-backed cloud computing company in Seattle, WA, founded by industry veterans with decades of experience creating and operating Enterprise software at companies like Microsoft, Amazon, and Google. Pulumi’s user base includes companies of all shapes and sizes, including ISVs, SIs, and Fortune 500s.

Best Practices for Row Level Security with Entitlements Tables

whitePaper | September 16, 2022

Row Level Security (RLS) in Tableau refers to restricting the rows of data a certain user can see in a given workbook or data source at the time they view the data. It contrasts with permissions within Tableau Server (or Tableau Online), which are used to control access to content and feature functionality.

Advanced Persistent Threats: Moving from Detection to Prevention and Response