On Dynamic Recovery of Cloud Storage System Under Advanced Persistent Threats

Defense Against Advanced Persistent Threats in Dynamic Cloud Storage: A Colonel Blotto Game Approach

Advanced Persistent Threat (APT) attackers apply multiple sophisticated methods to continuously and stealthily steal information from the targeted cloud storage systems and can even induce the storage system to apply a specific defense strategy and attack it accordingly. In this paper, the interactions between an APT attacker and a defender allocating their Central Processing Units (CPUs) over ...

Defending Against Advanced Persistent Threats

MLDS: Multi-Layer Defense System for Preventing Advanced Persistent Threats

Here we report on the issue of Advanced Persistent Threats (APT), which use malware for the purpose of leaking the data of large corporations and government agencies. APT attacks target systems continuously by utilizing intelligent and complex technologies. To overthrow the elaborate security network of target systems, it conducts an attack after undergoing a pre-reconnaissance phase. An APT at...

Diagnosing Advanced Persistent Threats: A Position Paper

When a computer system is hacked, analyzing the root-cause (for example entry-point of penetration) is a diagnostic process. An audit trail, as defined in the National Information Assurance Glossary, is a securityrelevant chronological (set of) record(s), and/or destination and source of records that provide evidence of the sequence of activities that have affected, at any time, a specific oper...

Schemes for Surviving Advanced Persistent Threats

Mission critical systems are prevalent in the military and industry which renders them attractive as targets for security attacks. Their constantly increasing structural complexity contributes to benign faults and further facilitates malicious entities. Over the years, these malicious entities in cyber-space have grown smarter and extremely resourceful. Advanced persistent threat (APT) is a cle...