Presented as a webinar on March 11, 2010.
The buzzword for 2010 seems to be the APT (Advanced Persistent Threat), however MANDIANT has known of this type of cyber attack for years. The recently released M-Trends report focuses on the APT and details threat intelligence learned while conducting intrusion investigations for the U.S. government, the defense industrial base, and commercial organizations.
During this State of the Hack presentation, MANDIANT’s Christopher Glyer and Michael J. Graven discussed trends our consultants have observed over the past five years, and went into a deeper dive of case studies included in the report.
Whether you are unfamiliar with the APT, or have known about this sophisticated threat for some time, this webinar will provide you with the tools you need to understand the challenges faced with this growing problem.
In the webinar, we referred to several resources:
Michael Graven is a director at MANDIANT. Like all MANDIANT consultants, he chases network bad guys through Fortune 500 companies, governments, and financial institutions. Michael earned degrees at Northwestern University and Stanford University. He has worked on internetworks and system security since 1989, working in environments as large as AT&T and Netscape to as small as twenty-person startups. He is a native Californian and a snowboarder, but he does not surf.
Christopher Glyer is a Manager at MANDIANT. He has over eight years experience in computer and information security, including enterprise-wide incident response investigations, secure network design and architecture, penetration testing and strategic corporate security development. Mr. Glyer has led incident response teams in multiple Advanced Persistent Threat and card data theft compromises.
