A method for detecting, identifying, and mitigating advanced persistent threats in a computer network having one or more computers includes a processor in the computer network: receiving a request to access a resource in the computer network; identifying the request as originating from an application executing on the computer network; executing an anomaly operation to determine a behavior of the application is one of anomalous and not anomalous; executing a privilege operation to determine the request is one of permanently allowed and not-permanently allowed; granting access to the resource for both a non-anomalous-behaving application and a permanently allowed request; and generating and displaying, on a graphical user interface of the computer network, and prompt for either an anomalous-behaving application or a not-permanently allowed request.