Advanced Persistent Threats and Threat Modeling Questions

Covers understanding how advanced attackers operate, designing simulated engagements that emulate sophisticated multi stage adversaries, and constructing threat models to anticipate likely attack paths. Topics include multi stage attack chains across systems, persistence mechanisms, lateral movement strategies, privilege escalation, data exfiltration, and advanced evasion techniques. Candidates should be able to use threat intelligence and the MITRE ATTACK framework to inform realistic adversary emulation scenarios, select high value targets, and plan multi phase exercises such as red team and purple team engagements. Includes threat modeling practices such as asset and attack surface identification, attack tree and kill chain thinking, mapping controls to likely tactics and techniques, and adapting scenarios when defenses are encountered. Evaluation also covers how to measure detection and response gaps, recommend mitigations, and produce actionable findings and roadmaps to improve detection, prevention, and resilience.