The document discusses advanced persistent threats (APTs), highlighting how cyber actors can counter defensive measures and detailing a seven-phase attack process that includes reconnaissance, payload delivery, and data exfiltration. It emphasizes the sophistication of APTs in infiltrating systems and suggests that organizations must adopt a multi-layered defense strategy, which includes firewalls, antivirus, intrusion prevention systems, and advanced email protection, to mitigate these threats. Inspirisys offers solutions to help organizations defend against APTs effectively.

1.  APT is the most advanced
cyber threat in the security
landscape.
 Cyber actors are progressed to
the extent that they can counter
attack any kind of defensive
countermeasures.
 One such perilous attack that
intrudes into a system and
mines private data is advanced
persistent threat.

2. BREAK THE
CHAIN
7 P H A S E S O F A D VA N C E D P E R S I S T E N T T H R EAT S

3. PHASE 01
 The intruder researches the victim to
gain knowledge about vulnerability in
the organization and the IT
infrastructure.
 The attacker finds the right contact
information to target by spear-
phishing.
SURVEILLANCE

4. PHASE 02
• The intruder builds a payload that can be
transported to the targeted victim’s computer.
• Thus the vulnerability found in the
Surveillance phrase is exploited with a Trojan
packaged with a delivery system.
ARMAMENT

5. PHASE 03
 The intruder finds means to deliver
this weaponized payload to the
victim’s computer.
 The three most prevalent forms of
delivery are email, website and a
USB stick.
CARRIAGE

6. PHASE 04
• The intruder triggers the execution of this
weaponized payload and exploits vulnerabilities in
these files to trigger the execution of malicious
code.
MANIPULATION

7. PHASE 05
 The intruder gains easy access to the
targeted victim’s system by deploying a
malicious Trojan.
DEPLOYMENT

8. PHASE 06
• After gaining the access, the payload initiates the
connection with the intruder’s server, thereby
making it easier for the intruder to shadow the
compromised system and issue commands
through the network.
CONTROL

9. PHASE 07
 This is the final phase where the
intruder has everything to exfiltrate the
right confidential information,
compromise data integrity or
availability.
ACTION

10. THE GOAL OF INTRUSION MAY SIMPLY
BE TO GAIN ACCESS TO THE SECURED
SYSTEM OR NETWORK.

11. BUT APTS CAN SURVEY THE SYSTEM FOR
WEEKS, MONTHS OR EVEN YEARS TO TAKE
SMALL STEPS TO ACCOMPLISH THE MISSION.

12. HOW INSPIRISYS CAN HELP
YOUR ORGANIZATION TO
DEFEND AGAINST APT?
As an integral piece of an Adaptive
Defence strategy, our state-of-the-
art advanced persistent threat
protection solutions protect against
cyber-attacks with technologies
such as

13. FIREWALL
First Layer Of
Defence Against APT

14. WEB
APPLICATION
FIREWALL
Monitor And Block
Malicious Web Traffic

15. ANTIVIRUS
Detect And Prevent A
Wide Range Of APT
Malware, Trojans
And Viruses

16. INTRUSION
PREVENTION
SYSTEM
Detect Malicious
Activities In The
System And Prevent
Any Possible Intrusion

17. SANDBOX
Behaviour Analysis To
Protect Against APT

18. VIRTUAL
PRIVATE
NETWORK
Encrypted Connection
To Ensure Sensitive
Data Is Safely
Transmitted

19. ADVANCED
EMAIL
PROTECTION
Scan And Block APT
Malware In Emails

20. Inspirisys Anti-APT Solutions
Bolstered With Advanced
Persistent Tools Reinforced To
Close The Response Gap By
Detecting Malicious Activities
Faster.

21. TO LEARN MORE ABOUT ISL ANTI-APT SOLUTIONS
Reach Out To reachus@inspirisys.com
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