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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

Automating the IR and investigation processes

In this section, we are going to start an investigation from the generation of an alert and the creation of a case of an incident. First, we need to emulate an attack.

Emulating the attack

To emulate malicious behavior and generate the detection of this activity, we will use the following tools:

  • Certutil: A Windows command-line utility that is regularly used to get certificate authority information and to configure certificate services. A threat actor can abuse this utility to download malicious programs from the internet and/or encode the content of these files to avoid detection.
  • ProcDump: This tool is part of the Windows Sysinternals utility suite and is used to monitor applications and generate crash dumps to analyze and determine the causes of the failure. A threat actor can abuse this tool by creating a dump of processes such as Local Security Authority Subsystem (LSASS), from which Windows credentials can be extracted...