Active adversaries: Who they are and how they’re targeting your organization

Every minute of every day, security teams face an array of active adversaries — highly skilled, well-paid cybercriminals equipped with sophisticated software and networking skills. They are often part of a professional cybercriminal network, dedicated to infiltrating organizations’ systems, evading detection and continuously adapting their techniques using keystroke and AI-based methods to bypass preventative security controls and execute their attacks.

This eBook – the first in a two-part series — captures their activities in detail, drawing from an analysis of 232 major cyber incidents remediated by Sophos X-Ops incident responders. Readers will walk away with a better understanding of the criminals they are up against and how to mount a more effective defense