According to a recent SecureList report, advanced persistent attacks or APTs have increased rapidly in numbers in the last few years. It’s a threat as scary as it sounds. If gone undetected in a company, it can lead to severe destruction.

The malware has been known to capture confidential data, victims’ videos, browsing sessions, and financial information. Moreover, hackers have several on-hand practices to keep the victim under pressure.

More than 540 data breaches have happened so far this year, and we don’t want your business to be the next target of cybercriminals. Continue reading as we discuss the APT attacks & preventive measures to avoid their staggeringly adverse effects.

Signs of an Advanced Persistent Attack

Almost all kinds of APTs follow a similar course of action. Here’s a quick rundown of a typical APT attack process:

• The hacker gains access to your company’s data and network.
• The malware identifies your system’s weak spots and awaits command and control
• It proceeds to compromise the system’s confidentiality by exploiting the weaknesses.
• The hacker now tries to access passwords, email addresses, pin codes, and payment/billing information and infiltrates the data.
• The hacker leaves with the information with compromised spotsin your company’s system to gain back the access any time they want.

Some common signs that may help you detect an obfuscated APT attack include unexpected traffic, suspicious logins, recurring malware, unexpected data bundles, and phishing emails.

Prevention

Fortunately, by implementing effective strategies, APTs can be avoided or detected before a fraud or a breach happens to destroy your intellectual property.

Let’s delve deeper and get to know five of the most efficacious tactics of doing so:

1. Install a Strong Cybersecurity Framework

A real-time, dynamic cybersecurity system helps you mitigate the risk of losing your data and system’s privacy. Target zero-day attacks instead of relying on signs and symptoms. A useful security framework helps you block any APT attempts in real-time and halts data retrieval.

2. Regularly Run Security and Risk Mitigation Assessments

Applying a mix and match of different defense strategies is the best way to protect your business or personal network from theft or fraud. Use the game theory model to seek professionals’ help to create protective layers and proven strategies for system adaptation.

You must include web application pen testing, firewalls, traffic filters, vulnerability scans, cybersecurity assessments, and CTH is your model.

3. Implement Advanced Accessibility Controls

The ominous APT threat has overtaken both large and small-scale enterprises. The growing number of web applications, social networking websites, and cloud services allows users to upload and download heaps of unsafe and potentially malicious information. It also increases the chances of launching malware scripts into your personal or corporate network.

Performing a web audit and installing a filtering system prevents users from accessing hazardous and encrypted sites that may launch APT attacks.

How Can We Help You?

We’re a full-service cybersecurity company that offers your business 360-degree protection from all kinds of malicious attacks, network breaches, and intellectual property damage. Our holistic range of services includes network security audits, cybersecurity threat hunting, and web penetration testing, among many others.

We have also launched remote worker protection and secure web hosting services to ensure your remote team’s and business’s safety in these challenging times.

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