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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Roberto Martinez
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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

Summary

In this chapter, you learned about the concept of integration and orchestration using different solutions known as SOAR, as well as the components needed to optimize and streamline IR processes.

You analyzed a use case of an IR of a suspicious communication from a device on the network to command and control (C2) on the internet.

You learned how to set up a SOAR environment, integrating the Security Onion (monitoring), TheHive (IR), n8n (workflows), and Velociraptor (artifacts collection, digital forensics, and investigation) open source tools.

You also learned how to escalate security incidents from alerts generated in a SOC and how to open a case from the IR platform to initiate the IR and investigation process.

In the next chapter, you will learn about detection engineering concepts and how to apply different analytics in IR to proactively uncover malicious behavior.