Designing And Responding To Targeted Network Attacks Against The Enterprise

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Presented at ShmooCon 2007 by

Presmike

Cygnus

Corporate networks are under attack by increasingly sophisticated attackers. Gone are the days of simple port scans and misconfigured firewalls. The usual suspects associated with internet attacks are on the forefront of every security practitioners minds. Todays custom targeted attacks will become common place in the next 5 years. Current targeted attacks can only be handled by advanced Incident Response Teams who are aware of the threats and capable of detecting them. Understanding these attacks provides a future prospective to network defense. We will discuss targeted attack design principles and a walkthrough of a targeted attack from inception to the final IR process.