Detecting and Mitigating Advanced persistent threat (APT) major challenge for IT Firms, industrial establishments, and military organizations.

An advanced persistent threat (APT) refer to complex, sophisticated and stealthy techniques of using software, hardware or social engineering tools to continuously monitor and extract data from targets such as organizations and/or nations for business or political motives. They typically start with seemingly benign activities that do not trigger any warning, as was the case with the Stuxnet and Aurora. Because a great deal of effort and resources usually go into carrying out APT attacks, hackers typically target high-value targets, such as nation-states and large corporations, with the ultimate goal of stealing information over a long period of time.