TIM-6760: Critical Infrastructure Protection, Information Warfare, and Cyber Terrorism

Coulter, R., Zhang, J., Pan, L., & Xiang, Y. (2020). Unmasking windows advanced persistent threat execution. 2020 IEEE 19th International Conference on Trust, Security, and Privacy in Computing and Communications (TrustCom), 268–276.
The author discusses the discovery of APT.

Yang, L., Li, P., Yang, X., & Tang, Y. Y. (2020). A risk management approach to defending against the advanced persistent threat. IEEE Transactions on Dependable and Secure Computing, Dependable and Secure Computing, 17(6), 1163–1172.
This is a risk-based approach against APT threats.

Zhang, H., Liu, H., Liang, J., Li, T., Geng, L., Liu, Y., & Chen, S. (2020). Defense against advanced persistent threats: Optimal network security hardening using multi-stage maze network game. 2020 IEEE Symposium on Computers and Communications (ISCC), 1–6.
The authors discuss network security hardening to protect against APT threats.

Zou, Q., Sun, X., Liu, P., & Singhal, A. (2020). An approach for detection of advanced persistent threat attacks. Computer, 53(12), 92–96.
The authors discuss APT detection methods.