E-Crime and Advanced Persistent Threats: How Profit and Politics Affect IT Security Strategies

Organized cybercrime and advanced persistent threats aren’t new, but they now pose a much larger threat to the safe conduct of commerce and to public safety and national security. Sadly, most enterprises are still fighting the last war against loud, dumb attacks like Code Red, Blaster and Slammer. The gulf between protection and threat is wider than ever. Enterprises need to redirect their security investment to products and services that address the new IT security reality: increasing their ability to capture, analyze and understand network flows, to monitor threats specific to their company or vertical, and to distribute and enforce granular use and access policies that limit risk both inside and outside the network firewall.

There are no easy fixes, and IT vendors cloud the discussion with FUD and recommendations tailored to their product lines. The task of understanding low, slow-moving attacks and sophisticated fraud within enterprises will be long and painful, and may require tough choices about whether to continue investing in technologies that no longer work. The result won’t be an end to online crime, but it should be networks that are hardened to both brute attacks and sophisticated, stealthy threats.

This report takes the measure of the modern cybercrime epidemic, makes some predictions about the direction that sophisticated cybercrime and state-sponsored espionage will take in the next few years, and evaluates existing vendor responses to the shifting threat landscape. It also examines some of the technologies and tools that we believe will be increasingly important parts of the enterprise cybercrime- ighting toolkit. Additionally, it considers the existing vendor landscape and what kinds of partnerships and M&A opportunities the cybercrime epidemic might create in the years ahead.

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