Advanced Persistent Security

Today’s high-caliber cybercriminals conduct extremely well-planned and executed attacks on organizations throughout the globe. This "new normal" requires a sophisticated security program to both proactively and reactively mitigate these attacks. Written by top cyber security professionals, Advanced Persistent Security covers secure network design and implementation, including authentication, authorization, data and access integrity, network monitoring, and risk assessment. Using such recent high profile cases as Target, Sony, and Home Depot, the book explores information security risks, identifies the common threats organizations face, and how to prioritize the right countermeasures. Advanced Persistent Security discusses concepts such as malignant versus malicious threats, adversary mentality, motivation, the economics of cybercrime, the criminal infrastructure, dark webs, and the criminals organizations currently face. Practical and cost-effective recommendations for proactive and reactive protective measuresLearn how to establish a viable threat intelligence programFocuses on how social networks present a double-edged sword against security programs