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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

Creating threat actor and campaign profiles

Usually, Threat Intelligence Platforms (TIPs) have a section with the profiles of different threat actors, their characteristics, the campaigns attributed to them, and their main TTPs.

If you do not have access to a TIP, you can still consult the information about threat actor profiles and their malicious campaigns from public sources such as MITRE ATT&CK (https://attack.mitre.org/groups/), AT&T OTX (https://otx.alienvault.com/browse/global/adversaries), or this compilation created by industry colleagues: https://apt.threattracking.com.

However, these information sources cover only threat actors with a specific visibility level due to the nature of their attacks or the relevance of their targets. So, there will be many others that do not appear there, but they threaten organizations nonetheless.

Sometimes, organizations should create their own internal threat actor profiles and campaigns from their incident response...