Dark Reading: Damage Mitigation As The New Defense - Dark Reading: Attacks & Breaches

Containing the attacker in today's persistent threat environment

Apr 05, 2012
By Kelly Jackson Higgins

This is the second installment in an occasional series on security's new reality.

Any Defense contractor -- and now, a few security vendors -- can tell you that even the best security technology and expertise can't stop a well-funded and determined attacker.

That new reality, which has been building for several years starting in the military sector, has shifted the focus from trying to stop attackers at the door to instead trying to lessen the impact of an inevitable hack. The aim is to try to detect an attack as early in its life cycle as possible and to quickly put a stop to any damage, such as extricating the attacker from your data server -- or merely stopping him from exfiltrating sensitive information.

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