Understanding Today’s Threat Actors
Insights from Incident Responders and Tips for Protecting Your Organization
Threats of all shapes and sizes are putting organizations everywhere at risk.
As a result, traditional security controls are no longer sufficient for protecting your organization.
While attackers’ increasingly sophisticated activities should sound alarm bells, organizations have the opportunity to stop these types of attacks in their tracks. Download our guide for the latest insights on today’s threat actors to help you:
- Understand the #1 method attackers use to get into your network
- Learn lesser-known signs of intrusion
- Implement the right activity logging and monitoring tools
Get the latest insights on adversary behavior
Executive Summary:
The cyberthreat landscape constantly changes, posing significant challenges for security professionals. Threat actors often evade traditional prevention-oriented security controls. In the first half of 2023, threat actors utilized valid credentials most often to gain entry to a corporate network and then disabled defenses to remain hidden.1 This offered them plenty of time for network discovery, lateral movement, and data collection before exfiltrating and encrypting that data. While attackers’ increasingly sophisticated activities should sound alarm bells, that same sophistication provides organizations ample opportunity to stop these attacks before a threat actor can achieve their objectives.
Learn About:
- The Evolving Threat Landscape Keeps Security Practitioners Up at Night
- How Threat Actors Gain and Maintain Access to Your Network
- A Closer Look at Discovery, Lateral Movement, and Further Instruction
- A Closer Look at Collection, Exfiltration, and Impact
