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Search - Cyber Adversary Characterization: Auditing the Hacker Mind

Cyber Adversary Characterization Auditing the Hacker Mind
Author: Tom Parker, Marcus Sachs, Eric Shaw, Ed Stroz, Matthew G. Devost

Develop a Well-Measured Defense Against CybercriminalsWhen we speak of the hacker mind, then, we have come to mean the mind of a miscreant motivated by a broad range of ulterior purposes. We mean script kiddies who download scripts written by others and execute them with the click of a button, we mean vandals with limited impulse control, we mea... more »n thieves of data, and then we mean all the people who use that data for extortion, corporate or industrial espionage, state-level spy craft, identity theft, grand larceny, blackmail, vicious revenge, or terror. That's lots of kinds of minds, needing to be understood, needing to be profiled, needing to be penetrated, needing to be known inside and out.--from the preface by Richard Thieme.

Kevin Mitnick Exposed
Cyber Terrorist: Just a Media Buzzword?
Understand Adversary Models
Characterize Specific Threats
Manage the Insider Threat
Characterize the Extremes-Terrorists and Nation States
Monitor a Cyber Stalker
Case Studies Offer Insight and Lessons

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ABOUT THE AUTHORSTom Parker is a computer security analyst who, along side his work for some of the world's largest organizations, providing integral security services is widely known for his vulnerability research on a wide range of platforms and commercial products. His more recent work includes the development of an embedded operating system, media management system and cryptographic code for use on digital video band (DVB) routers, deployed on the networks of hundreds of large organizations around the globe. In 1999, he helped form Global InterSec LLC, playing a leading role in developing key relationships between GIS and the public and private sector security companies. Whilst continuing his vulnerability research, focusing on emerging technologies and new vulnerability exploitation techniques, Tom spends much of his time researching methodologies aimed at characterizing adversarial capabilities and motivations against live, mission critical assets, providing methodologies to aid in adversarial attribution in the unfortunate times when incidents do occur. Currently working as a security consultant for NetSEC, a provider of managed and professional security services; Tom continues his research into finding practical ways for large organizations, to manage the ever growing cost of security, through the identification where the real threats lay there by defining what really matters. Tom is a contributing author to "Stealing the Network: How to Own a Continent" by Syngress publishing (ISBN: 1-931836-05-1).Matthew G. Devost is President and CEO of the Terrorism Research Center, Inc., overseeing all research, analysis and training programs. He has been researching the impact of information technology on national security since 1993. Matthew is certified in the National Security Agency's INFOSEC Assessment Methodology and is an instructor for the Threat, Exposure and Response Matrix (TERM) methodology. He is a member of the American Society for Industrial Security, the Information Systems Security Association, and the International Association for Counterterrorism & Security Professionals. He has appeared on CNN, MSNBC, FoxNews, NPR, CBS Radio, BBC television, NWCN, Australian television and over five dozen other domestic and international radio and television programs as an expert on terrorism and information warfare.Marcus H. Sachs is the Director of the SANS Internet Storm Center and is a cyberspace security researcher, writer, and instructor for the SANS Institute. He previously served in the White House Office of Cyberspace Security and was a staff member of the President's Critical Infrastructure Protection Board. While a member of the White House staff, Marcus coordinated efforts to protect and secure the nation's telecommunication and Internet infrastructures, leveraging expertise from United States government agencies, the domestic private sector, and the international community. He also contributed to the National Strategy to Secure Cyberspace, upon his joining of the National Cyber Security Division of the US Department of Homeland Security.Eric Shaw is a clinical psychologist who has spent the last 20 years specializing in the psychological profiling of political actors and forensic subjects. He has been a consultant supporting manager development and organizational change, a clinician aiding law enforcement and corporate security, an intelligence officer supporting national security interests and a legal consultant providing negotiation and litigation assistance. He has also provided cross-cultural profiling for the U.S. Government on the psychological state and political attitudes of figures such as Saddam Hussein, Iranian revolutionary leaders under Khomeini, senior Soviet military commanders, as well as Yugoslav, Laotian, Cuban and other military and political leaders.Ed Stroz (CPA, CITP, CFE) is President of Stroz Friedberg, LLC, which he started in 2000 after a sixteen-year career as a Special Agent for the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI). Stroz Friedberg performs investigative, consulting, and forensic laboratory services for the most pre-eminent law firms in the country. In 1996, while still a Special Agent, he formed the FBI's Computer Crime Squad in New York City, where he supervised investigations involving computer intrusions, denial-of-service attacks, illegal Internet wiretapping, fraud, money laundering, and violations of intellectual property rights, including trade secrets. Among the more significant FBI investigations Ed handled were: Vladimir Levin's prosecution for hacking a US bank from Russia; the hack against the New York Times web site; the Internet dissemination by "Keystroke Snoopers," a hacking group responsible for a keystroke capture program embedded in a Trojan Horse; Breaking News Network's illegal interception of pager messages; the denial of service attack against a major business magazine; efforts to steal copyrighted content from the Bloomberg system; and the hack of a telecommunications switch.TOCForeword by Jeff MossChapter 1: IntroductionChapter 2: Theoretical Characterization MetricsChapter 3: Disclosure and the Cyber Food ChainChapter 4: Rating the Attack: Post-Incident Characterization MetricsChapter 5: Asset Threat CharacterizationChapter 6: Bringing It All Together: Completing the Cyber Adversary ModelChapter 7: WarmTouch: Assessing the Insider Threat and Relationship ManagementChapter 8: Managing the Insider ThreatChapter 9: The Cyber Adversary in Groups: Targeting Nations' Critical InfrastructuresChapter 10: Characterizing the Extremes-Terrorists and Nation StatesChapter 11: ConclusionsChapter 12: Return on InvestmentGlossary

ISBN-13: 9781931836111
ISBN-10: 1931836116
Pages: 356
Edition: 1
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