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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)
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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 IRPs

An IRP is a document that describes the procedures to follow in case of a security incident. The management area must support this document.

The IRP generally defines a route to follow when a security incident occurs. This plan must be consistent with existing organizational capacity, resources, and infrastructure.

The elements of an IRP are listed here:

  • Mission
  • Objectives and strategies
  • Management approval
  • The organization's position on IR
  • Metrics to measure the capacity and efficiency of the plan
  • Path to raise the maturity levels of the organization's IR capability
  • Definition of alignment of the plan with the organization

This last point is crucial since one of the objectives of IR is to help in the BC process and the organization's operations.

This plan, as with any plan or policy, should be reviewed periodically (according to National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) recommendations...