Sherlock Holmes and the case of the advanced persistent threat
Ari Juels, Ting-Fang Yen · USENIX conference on Large-scale exploits and emergent threats · 2012
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.