A session in the DevNet Zone at Cisco Live, Berlin. Targeted Attacks, which the media refers to as APTs, are threats that must be addressed by any organization requiring networked computers to do business. In this session we will go over the run book techniques used by these threat actors and then go over strategies for mitigating those attacks. In this session we will focus on the concepts that developers of network applications need to be aware of to mitigate these styles of attacks and techniques to use. To finish off, we will delve into pxGrid and what it can offer to break these APT style attack playbooks. Backgrounder: We obtained knowledge of these run book techniques from trusted advisors, peers in the industry and from our own observations. Our own observations included information from our CSIRT, our security products in the field as well as our internal phishing awareness campaign. After studying these techniques we devised strategies to mitigate them. Those strategies were then tested and deployed throughout our ecosystem. The Cisco CSDL initiative and ACT2 chips will also be techniques and tools highlighted in this session.