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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

Chapter 3: Basics of the Incident Response and Triage Procedures

"There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact."

― Arthur Conan Doyle, The Boscombe Valley Mystery – a Sherlock Holmes Short Story

When responding to a cybersecurity incident, there are three essentials to consider:

  • Response time
  • Following appropriate procedures depending on the type of incident
  • Using the right tools

Every incident is unique and has very particular challenges...

We reviewed some cases in the first chapter where attackers used deception to make the response and investigations more difficult. For example, in the cyberattack against Banco de Chile, the attackers used the distraction to compromise around 9,000 devices using the KillMBR malware. The threat actors' real objective was to transfer money to another country, abusing the SWIFT money transfer system, to avoid the security staff figuring out what was happening.

An incident response...