6.6 Nation-State Attribution Part 2

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if nation state actors are becoming more sophisticated,

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enterprises needs toe up their game to the same level off sophistication

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to proactively defend against these types of threats. The first step is to take another look at your organization from the aspect off information that would be most attractive to a nation state actor.

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If your organization stores intellectual property

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sensitive personal, legal or financial data with Judy PR in mind

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or other consumer data,

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you are ripe for a nation state threat. Certainly, consumer facing activities are a target rich opportunity for nation sponsored Attackers.

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What security measures are the organization's taken to harden their defenses? In addition to patching vulnerabilities and implementing multi factor authentication,

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every company must also educate their teams and enforce best practices.

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Users should also be instructed toe, identify, social engineering attacks, fishing threats and other malicious activities. Otherwise, they will likely become a victim.

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Constant vigilance and monitoring off all security processes in place is absolutely essential to defense for nation state threats

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and for all threats that can compromise your organization's ability to do business.

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Think about more frequent check ins with your security teams to obtain the most complete picture off both authorized on unauthorized activity.

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This picture should include de visibility into your traffic patterns across the network to alert you to the Nile, off service threats

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or the inside. Use low volume attacks like stress tests.

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Besides the constant vigilance,

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please be proactive. Introducing your attack surface

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scrutinized your organization's workloads and when Internet access is not required easily those from the Internet.

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This helps to reduce the exposure off critical data toe unauthorized access.

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Also, use all the tools at your disposal to help

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with vigilance

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such as Patch and Vulnerability management application, Whitely Stink Privilege management, identity Management file and media protection and ransomware imitation.

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Finally,

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keep your friends close,

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but your enemies closer.

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It is a famous line from the Godfather films

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and a good counsel for nation state defense on the Keep in France. Close site. Sharing What you have learned in the face off these threats with your friends and partners

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helps the universe off colleagues working to defend against major attacks.

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Which brings us to another subject that we will be discovering together in the next module.

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In summary, state sponsored attacks are a highly rewarding and relatively low cost and low risk way to carry out eh? Spinach and military operations.

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The likelihood off being ableto attribute attacks back to a particular country with sufficient trigger is extremely low,

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and the success rate off any concerted effort is all. Mostly untie, reassured, and in this lesson we discover it. What are state sponsored attacks?

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What are the methods that they are using? Their modest operandi, their motivations

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and targets? And you finish it. This lesson with dips and recommendations on how to fight nation state actors.

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This lesson waas The last video from the module attribution.

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Our final stop off this course will be on dissemination and feedback.