Life's certainties: death, taxes and APTs
Don Smith · Network Security · 2013
Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attacks are becoming more prevalent and invariably cost businesses not only in terms of cash but also loss of intellectual property and reputation. IT managers and CIOs are well aware that in today's environment it's not a matter of if their company is going to be compromised by cyber-criminals, but when. According to the 2012 Information Security Breaches Survey (ISBS) written by PwC, one in seven large businesses has been subject to hacking attacks in the past year and the Cabinet Office estimated the cybercrime cost to the UK economy at £27 billion in 2011.1