Recent leakage Padgett- architectural drawings and design of Beale’s
plans for new type resort recently acquired island. Intellectual a of on
property theft poses serious damage, Padgett- profitability, Beale’s
decrease business growth, and compromise competitive edge the in
industry. According Federal Bureau Investigation (2016), theft to of IP
is, but limited to, robbing people companies their ideas, not of or of
inventions, and creative expressions. This can everything from trade be
secrets and propriety products and classified plans. The suspected IP is
to be stolen through Advanced Persistent Threat mechanism, attack an
in in which the intruder established long-term presence a Padgett-
Beale networks (Johnston al., 2019). ATP requires expert hacking et
ski and need well funded. The theft likely sponsoredlls to be IP is to be
by competitors engaging corporate espionage and potentially state in
sponsored espionage. Given that competitors have sworn that they are
not part the espionage, possible that this theft state of it is IP was
sponsored. effort avoiding future information leakage and theft, In in IP
Padgett-Beale needs strengthen perimeter defenses its to the of
network, invest network intrusion detection and techniques, well in as
as corporate training to mitigate and contain IP theft.
ATP attacks are much more complex than the traditional malware
attacks. The intruder can infiltrate and evade detection, roam around
the networks for weeks or months. ATP starts with infiltration the of
target network. This can achieved through social engineering and be
remote file inclusion and SQL injections, application vulnerabilities that
have been overlooked. Attacker, once infiltrated through vector, can a
establish many backdoors evade detection and persist the to on
network even after detection discovery. The intruder can start of now
connecting command and control server, gather intelligence such to as
username and passwords further escalate their privilege within the to
compromised network. The attacker will free roam around the be to
network with legitimate credential and have access sensitive files, a
which can also sent back the attacker. Even detected and be to
removed form the compromised network, the attacker can persist
through many back doors that was opened (FireEye, n.d.). Cyber
security analysts will have actively close the backdoors to on
compromised application and systems the network on as attacks
persist. Padgett- thief could still the network after its Beale’s IP be on
removal. best that potentia compromised systems with It is lly
vulnerable applications isolated and off the intranet the to be of
organization.
To mitigate such incidents the future, Padgett-Beale must regularly in
