Tag Archives: Advanced Persistent Threat

On May 16, Deputy Undersecretary for Cybersecurity, Mark Weatherford, spoke to the Advanced Cyber Security Center about DHS’s cyber security priorities: Information Sharing, R&D, and the Advanced Persistent Threat.

On Information Sharing:  This is a continuing challenge, in part because of the way the federal government shares information.  At present, the federal government provides cyber threat information to private sector organizations,… More

What do cyberattackers want?  According to a recent article in the Wall Street Journal, it depends.  And the most dangerous ones are the ones that really know what they want:  the Advanced Persistent Threat (APT).  They APT isn’t easily defined, but think of APTs as professional thieves, going after high-value targets and using sophisticated techniques.  They are Thomas Crown to the every Eddie Coynes of the world. … More