A Survey on Advanced Persistent Threats: Techniques, Solutions, Challenges, and Research Opportunities

Threats that have been primarily targeting nation states and their associated entities have expanded the target zone to include the private and corporate sectors. This class of threats, well known as advanced persistent threats (APTs), are those that every nation and well-established organization fears and wants to protect itself against. While nation-sponsored APT attacks will always be marked by their sophistication, APT attacks that have become prominent in corporate sectors do not make it any less challenging for the organizations. The rate at which the attack tools and techniques are evolving is making any existing security measures inadequate. As defenders strive to secure every endpoint and every link…

• NS
  National Science Foundation

  Awards: OAC-1642031, SaTC-1528099, DGE-1723440
• NA
  North Atlantic Treaty Organization
• NN
  National Natural Science Foundation of China

  Awards: 61628201, 61571375
• UN
  U.S. Naval Research Laboratory

  Award: N00173-15-G017