Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Advanced Persistent Threat
Ari Juels and Ting-Fang Yen, RSA Laboratories
An Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) is a targeted attack against a high-value asset or a physical system. Drawing from analogies in the Sherlock Holmes stories of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, we illustrate potential strategies of deception and evasion available in this setting, and caution against overly narrow characterization of APTs.
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BibTeX
@inproceedings {181290,
author = {Ari Juels and Ting-Fang Yen},
title = {Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Advanced Persistent Threat},
booktitle = {5th USENIX Workshop on Large-Scale Exploits and Emergent Threats (LEET 12)},
year = {2012},
address = {San Jose, CA},
url = {https://www.usenix.org/conference/leet12/workshop-program/presentation/juels},
publisher = {USENIX Association},
month = apr
}
