Week 9: APTs: Incidents or Disasters in the Making?

For this discussion item you are asked to analyze and then explain for a non-technical audience what an Advanced Persistent Threat is and provide 3 examples of recent APTs which adversely impacted businesses. News articles and security blogs are excellent places to start your research. (Hint: search for "news Advanced Persistent Threats")

Your audience is the organization's Council of Managers, a small group of very influential executives. Format your posting as talking points (3-5 paragraphs) that can be used at the next meeting of this group. Your narrative should support the Director of IT Security Service's request for personnel to assist in testing the organization's incident response plans. Why should these executives provide their staff to support this effort?

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