The Impact of Cyber-Security on Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Advanced Persistent Threat

Gary C. Kessler

The Impact of Cyber-Security on Critical Infrastructure Protection: The Advanced Persistent Threat

Gary C. Kessler

Security Studies & International Affairs

Research output: Chapter in Book/Report/Conference proceeding › Chapter

Abstract

The advanced persistent threat (APT) is a new type of cyber-threat--a sustained attack on a specific target that employs many types of tools from the hacker's tool kit and adapts to the defenses put up to thwart it.

Original language	American English
Title of host publication	Critical Issues in Homeland Security: A Casebook
State	Published - 2014

Keywords

Cybersecurity
cyberwarfare
attacks on infrastructures

Disciplines

Emergency and Disaster Management
Other Computer Engineering

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