Reverse Deception: Organized Cyber Threat Counter-Exploitation

Introduction

Welcome and thank you for taking an interest in this book and the topics within. We are going to walk you through numerous tools, techniques, procedures, and case studies where these tactics and methods worked! You have opened this book with an awareness of cyber threats to enterprise networks, and want to learn how to proactively combat threats and adversaries.

First, you need to understand what the term advanced persistent threat means. It is a highly skilled and funded entity poised and directed specifically at your enterprise. The term has been in use for several years, but became truly infamous during Operation Aurora, an incident reported by Google in early 2010. In this book, we will discuss countermeasures for advanced persistent ...