Threat Actors

Definitions

• Advanced Persistent Threat

• Threat Actor

Look, you are going to see these types of lists floating around, including the ever present “State Sponsored” boogeymen.

• Organised crime

• State sponsored

• Hacktivists

• Terrorists

• Individual hackers

• Malicious insiders

• Accidental insiders

The Main ones you need to be aware of for small business is:

• Internal error and accidents, and internal malicious behaviours

  • eg disgruntled staff

• Hacking for profit

• everything else

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• State Sponsored boogeymen