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Threat Categories

Each threat actor has their own drivers and capabilities which include more advanced techniques/resources focusing on differing targets. Threat actors generally fall into one of the following categories where each represents a much higher threat/risk potential and therefore a higher Department of Homeland Security (DHS) threat level. Current information security techniques typically only cover threats representing a major flaw. Prudent risk threat analysis should consider industries threat characteristics and geographic potential to determine the relevancy of each DHS Threat Level.

Mercenary

• Higher-order skills
• Well financed
• Targeted activity
• Target known vulnerabilities
• Use viruses, worms, Trojans and bots as means to introduce sophisticated tools
• Target and exploit valuable data
• Detectable but hard to attribute

 DHS Threat Levels