Advanced Persistent Threat

Chapter 5

Protecting Your Data

Introduction

With everything going on in the world of cyber-attacks and organizations not always prepared to deal with the APT, it is easy to lose sight of what is important. The one fundamental truth of cyber security, it is and has always been about understanding, managing, and mitigating risk to an organization’s critical information. While saying that statement is easy, understanding that statement is harder, but implementing it is even more difficult. We have many customers we work with who will nod their head in agreement when we state that security is all about your data or critical information. However, when we ask a simple question, what is your most critical information, they cannot always answer the question. ...