Advanced Threat Protection secures cloud applications and
services by protecting your users from emerging advanced threats. Where once attackers
were
content to simply deface a website or gain notoriety through mass system disruption,
they now
realize that they can make significant money, steal important data, or interfere with
major
infrastructure systems via cyber warfare instead.
A targeted attack is a long-term cyber-espionage campaign against a person or organization
to
gain persistent access to the target network. Persistent access can allow attackers
to extract
confidential company data or damage the target network over a period of time. Compromised
networks can be used for attacks against other organizations, making it harder to
trace the
attack back to its originator.
Advanced persistent threats are targeted attacks with a pre-determined objective:
steal
sensitive data or cause targeted damage. Threats are usually not isolated incidents,
but rather
they are often conducted as a series of failed and successful attempts over time to
get deeper
into a target's network.