Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture
Pluralsight
Course Summary
Advanced Persistent Threats, the most infamous yet misunderstood types of threats against your organization. This course will teach you everything you want to know about them from origins and goals, to practical detection, and defense against an APT.
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Course Description
Whether you've been in the information security field or not, you've definitely heard of them. Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), are responsible for some of the largest cyber-attacks in history. How do you defend against these threats? Where do you even begin? In this course, Advanced Persistent Threats: The Big Picture, you'll learn everything that you might want to know about APTs. First, you'll develop an understanding of their motives and identities. Next, you'll explore when to classify a threat as an APT, and more importantly, when not to. Then, you'll learn how to assess your own risk and set up a system to detect these threats before it's too late. Finally, you'll finish up with implementing practical defense mechanisms. By the end of this course, you'll understand where APTs come from, what their goals are, how to detect and classify them, and minimize risk of threat from APTs.
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Course Syllabus
Course Overview- 1m 45s
—Course Overview 1m 45sWhat Is an Advanced Persistent Threat?- 19m 32s
—Introduction 3m 25s
—Meeting Your Case Study - Globomantics 1m 12s
—What Is an Advanced Persistent Threat? 4m 11s
—The Eight Characteristics of APTs 7m 23s
—Why Is Classifying Every Threat as an APT a Bad Idea? 2m 23s
—Summary 0m 57sUnderstanding the History of APTs- 20m 43sHow Does an APT Work?- 14m 10sWho Are They, and Why Do They Do What They Do?- 10m 30sHow Do You Detect APTs?- 14m 54sDefending Against APTs: Best Practices and Mitigation Strategies- 27m 53s