Website Vulnerability Detection: Inception of Mitigation of Advanced Persistent Threats

Authors

  • Abdul Khadar, Dr. Shrishail Math, Dr. Brahmananda S H, Dr. Shivamurthy G

Abstract

There are four basic stages of Advanced Persistent Threat attacks Study, Spear, Search and
Sabotage. The study stage is executed with intent to acquire as much information as possible about
attack target through various methods. One of the most successful methods is to gather the
vulnerabilities of the target website. To counter the APTs the very basic solution is to detect the
vulnerabilities present in the website and build an attack proof website to further shorten the chance
of APT attacks. Vulnerability is a weakness that exists in the computer component upon exploiting
which the attacker can adversely affect on integrity, confidentiality and availability of the computer
component. This paper presents the methods of detecting the website vulnerabilities and methods of
eliminating them. The vulnerability detection could be the most profitable method in the direction of
preventing the APTs attack.

Published

2020-11-01

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