Advanced Persistent Threat is the best fake excuse for data breaches

[Jeffrey Walton <noloader () gmail com>]

A bit dated (April 19, 2011):
http://www.itworld.com/security/157361/advanced-persistent-threat-best-fake-excuse-data-breaches

In security Advanced Persistent Threat has become the hot buzzword for
an irresistible digital attack that should result in no blame
whatsoever to the security, IT and business people involved – who, in
fact, should get a raise and some time off for having endured such a
harrowing experience.
...
Blaming a successful attack on APT "has become the perfect excuse,"
according to Bryan Sartin, Verizon's director of investigative
response, who oversaw an analysis of 760 data breaches in 2010, with
Verizon's security team and help of the U.S. Secret Service and Dutch
National High Tech Crime Unit.
...
While half of the attacks involved malware as well as other techniques
most are not sophisticated.... Only 3 percent were considered too
slick for the victims to have been able to stop. That leaves 97
percent of data breach victims trying to find something other than
themselves to blame.
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