Advanced Persistent Threat

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The term APT stands for Advanced Persistent Threat and is often used by cyber security companies to describe nation-state actors or advanced cyber criminals. The term was first coined by Mandiant (now part of FireEye) in 2013 to describe cyber espionage campaigns conducted by the Chinese military (https://www.fireeye.com/content/dam/fireeye-www/services/pdfs/mandiant-apt1-report.pdf). For this discussion posting, you are to […]