Abstract: Critically examining the cybersecurity management practices, it can be concluded that security management used by the organizations is mostly control-centered against a wide range of threats to information systems. This control-centered approach has matured to act as a shield to prevent against a large variety of attacks. Since threats against the information systems are becoming sophisticated, persistent and evolving, therefore, the current approach has not been very effective against the advanced strategies and techniques used by the emerging threats like APTs (Advanced Persistent Threats). The core argument of this paper suggests that to match up the capabilities of APTs, organizations need a major shift in their strategies. This shift needs to focus more on the response oriented techniques relegating erstwhile prevention-centered approach. Traditionally the warfare strategies are more response oriented. Some of the non-kinetic strategies (not involving physical fighting) can be useful in developing response capability of Information Systems. Therefore, drawing on the warfare paradigm, and making use of DCT (Dynamic Capability Theory), this research examines the applicability of warfare strategies in the entrepreneur domain. This article will also contribute by means of a research framework arguing that the integration of prevailing information security capabilities; such as incident response capabilities and security capabilities from the warfare practices is possible resulting in dynamic capabilities (warfare-enabled). Such capabilities can improve security performance.

Abid Hussain Shah. “Moving Beyond Traditional Incident Response: Combating APTs with Warfare-Enabled Continuous Response”. International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications (IJACSA) 15.9 (2024). http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0150991

@article{Shah2024,
title = {Moving Beyond Traditional Incident Response: Combating APTs with Warfare-Enabled Continuous Response},
journal = {International Journal of Advanced Computer Science and Applications},
doi = {10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0150991},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.14569/IJACSA.2024.0150991},
year = {2024},
publisher = {The Science and Information Organization},
volume = {15},
number = {9},
author = {Abid Hussain Shah}
}