'Introduction to the Threat Landscape Day 02'

Information security, also known as Info-Sec, is the practice of protecting information. Info-Sec includes the tools and processes used for preventing, detecting, and remediating attacks and threats to sensitive information, both digital and physical. Info-Sec also includes documenting the processes, threats, and systems that affect the security of information.

Welcome to the Threat Actors 101

• Bad actors, also known as threat actors, are persons who try to steal, sabotage, or stop you from using computer systems or accessing information that you are authorized to use and that is stored on or in transit between computing devices.
• There can be a myriad of motivations for their criminal behavior, and these different motivations not only influence their attack methods but provide insight into their character and beliefs. Bad actors can be grouped into types based on their character, motivations, and the common attack methods that they use.
• A bad actor could be anyone, located anywhere. It could be someone in a local coffee shop who is setting up a fake Wi-Fi access point to steal data, a disgruntled employee who is leveraging their employee status to gain deeper access to corporate data, someone in another country whose full-time job is to scam people from a call center, or it could be a teenager in your neighborhood who is curious about the freely available programs on the internet that makes distributing malware and ransomware as easy as a few clicks of the mouse.

What is the actual meaning of Threat Landscape and Its nature?

> A threat landscape is the collection of threats in a given context or domain and includes information about the perpetrators of the threats: the bad actors. In the context of cyber-security, the threat landscape includes all known and possible threats to computer networks.

>The introduction of new technologies and methods ensures a dynamic landscape where evolving new threats arise on an ongoing basis. Understanding the nature of the threats posed to your network arms you with the knowledge to counter and defeat attacks against computer systems.

[ For example, hospitals are big targets of cyber criminals who want to ransom valuable medical information to enrich themselves. A nation’s department of defense is more likely to be attacked by other nation state threat actors, who are more interested in stealing state secrets than extracting money from their victims.

Unlike the self-interested explorer, Cyber-criminals are fervent believers in an external cause. They are motivated by ideology or are animated by an emotive force. The idealism drives them to act collectively in common cause against an enemy.

Understanding the classification of threats gives you insight into how attacks can be carried out. Again, this can help you to identify weaknesses in your environment and take precautions to reduce the attack surface using different threat vector methods.

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