Advanced Persistent Security

Introduction

In this book, we define fundamentals related to security, risk management, intelligence, and cyberwarfare. We identify the foundation of defensive information warfare, which is protection, detection, and reaction. Although we describe high-level strategies that you can implement for each concept, it is important to think strategically about how you should holistically implement our recommendations.

We also want to provide a step-by-step guide to apply the defined strategy. It is important that you coordinate the protection, detection, and reaction strategies into a cohesive program. Just as there is the mantra, “Security should be built in, not bolted on,” which implies protection should be built into systems and networks, detection ...