From: Federal Times
By ADAM STONE
For years the IT community has been building walls and digging moats to keep out an especially damaging form of cyber attack: the advanced persistent threat, or APT. Now the emphasis has changed. Rather than focus on outside invaders, security experts have set their sights on internal vulnerability.
“It is critical to have people standing on the wall, but someone is always going to slip through, so you do have to have your defense in place beyond that wall,” said Greg Kushto, director of security practice for IT solutions provider Force 3.
Internal APT attacks may come in two flavors: Angry or disloyal employees may initiate an attack, or a successful breach will take over a computer and launch an assault from the inside. Either way, IT experts say the growing APT peril represents not just a threat from outside, but also a menace from within.
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