Some companies with little to no experience with APT are jumping on the counter-APT bandwagon, even registering domain names related to APT. APT is “not new” to people who have not been involved with the problem. Fear can be healthy if it helps reallocate resources away from wasteful and ineffective compliance regimes like FISMA. No one I know who fights APT sleeps very well. It’s better to prepare your defenses now than to start once a Federal agent comes knocking.”]
Source: https://taosecurity.blogspot.com/2010/02/answering-apt-misconceptions.html