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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Roberto Martinez
Book Image

Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By: Roberto Martinez

Overview of this book

With constantly evolving cyber threats, developing a cybersecurity incident response capability to identify and contain threats is indispensable for any organization regardless of its size. This book covers theoretical concepts and a variety of real-life scenarios that will help you to apply these concepts within your organization. Starting with the basics of incident response, the book introduces you to professional practices and advanced concepts for integrating threat hunting and threat intelligence procedures in the identification, contention, and eradication stages of the incident response cycle. As you progress through the chapters, you'll cover the different aspects of developing an incident response program. You'll learn the implementation and use of platforms such as TheHive and ELK and tools for evidence collection such as Velociraptor and KAPE before getting to grips with the integration of frameworks such as Cyber Kill Chain and MITRE ATT&CK for analysis and investigation. You'll also explore methodologies and tools for cyber threat hunting with Sigma and YARA rules. By the end of this book, you'll have learned everything you need to respond to cybersecurity incidents using threat intelligence.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
1
Section 1: The Fundamentals of Incident Response
6
Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries
10
Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations
15
Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

Understanding the TheHive architecture

TheHive is a scalable and modular incident management platform that can be installed in a standalone or a cluster distributed environment. Before the installation in a production environment, is very important to define the architecture according to the capacity needs of your organization.

For this module, we will use a preinstalled version of TheHive in a VM to focus specifically on the functionality and capacities of the product. You can consult the project's documentation for installation and configuration at the following link: https://docs.thehive-project.org/thehive/.

The incident management platform is composed of three components:

  • TheHive: The incident and case management platform
  • Cortex: An engine for observable analysis and response using threat intelligence
  • TheHive4: A Python API client to expand the functionality to external sources

The architecture of TheHive and Cortex is developed as follows:

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