Cyber Adversary Characterization
Auditing the Hacker Mind

The growing connectivity among secure and insecure networks has created opportunities for unauthorized intrusions into sensitive or proprietary computer systems. This book demonstrates the motives and motivations of criminal hackers through profiling attackers at post attack and forensic levels.

Written by leading security and counter-terrorism experts, whose experience include first-hand exposure in working with government branches and agencies (such as the FBI, US Army, Department of Homeland Security), this book sets a standard for the fight against the cyber-terrorist. Proving, that at the heart of the very best defense is knowing and understanding your enemy. This book will demonstrate the motives and motivations of criminal hackers through profiling attackers at post attack and forensic levels. This book is essential to those who need to truly 'know thy enemy' in order to prepare the best defense. The breadth of material in "Inside the Criminal Mind" will surprise every security specialist and cyber-terrorist buff of how much they do and (more importantly) don't know about the types of adversaries they stand to face.