A study on advanced persistent threats

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 8735 LNCS, Issue , 2014, Pages 63-72

  Chen, Ping ^a   Desmet, Lieven ^a   Huygens, Christophe ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEUVEN   (Belgium)

Author keywords

advanced threat; APT; cyber security; sophisticated attacks

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SCIENCE; COMPUTERS;

ACADEMIC COMMUNITY; ADVANCED THREAT; APT; CYBER SECURITY; CYBER-ATTACKS; OBJECTIVE APPROACHES; SOPHISTICATED ATTACKS; SPECIFIC INFORMATION;

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE;

EID: 84907351844     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-662-44885-4_5     Document Type: Conference Paper

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