Advanced Persistent Security: A Cyberwarfare Approach to Implementing Adaptive Enterprise Protection, Detection, and Reaction Strategies

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 presents tactics on how to prioritize the right countermeasures.

The book 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.

Contains practical and cost-effective recommendations for proactive and reactive protective measuresTeaches users how to establish a viable threat intelligence programFocuses on how social networks present a double-edged sword against security programs

1. What Is Advanced Persistent Security?

Section 1. Concepts/Foundation 2. Cyberwarfare Concepts 3. What Is Proaction? 4. Risk Management 5. How to Hack Computers 6. Threat 7. Adversary Infrastructure

Section 2. Protection 8. Governance 9. Vulnerabilities to Address 10. Countermeasures 11. Security Culture 12. What Is Threat Intelligence?

Section 3. Detection 13. What Is Detection? 14. Detection Deficit Disorder 15. The Human Intrusion Detection System 16. Kill Chain Analysis

Section 4. Reaction 17. Setting Reaction Strategy 18. Incident Response and Investigations

Section 5. Implementation 19. Know Yourself 20. Know Your Adversaries 21. Define Your Strategy 22. Determining the Appropriate Countermeasures 23. Advanced Persistent Security