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Advanced targeted attacks: it takes a system

Real time context sharing supports early attack detection and adaptive threat prevention

Published April 2017

For the second consecutive year at the Black Hat conference, McAfee, a part of Intel security, polled security practitioners to gauge their challenges with advanced malware used in low-prevalence and targeted attacks.

Despite many investments in “silver bullet” products, detection continued to lead the list of challenges. Key to detection is filtering the signal from the noise, while avoiding false positives took over as the second greatest problem for 25% of respondents. Timely protection and response continued to present major frustrations.

These challenges result from insufficient integration between inspection, intelligence gathering, analytics, and enforcement elements of the security architecture. These are the technology underpinnings of the prevent/detect/respond process of incident response.