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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 IR playbooks

IR playbooks are detailed action plans that describe actions to be taken in specific security incidents. Unlike IRPs, these playbooks are more of the checklist type of actions for specific types of attacks such as phishing, information leaks, ransomware, denial-of-service (DoS) attacks, defacement of a website, and so on.

The components of an IR playbook could comprise the following:

  • The condition that initiates an incident
  • Workflow of steps to follow
  • The incident completion status

There are several websites from where you can download IR playbook templates; these templates can be very useful, and you can use them as a basis to create your own playbooks.

Incident Playbook

Incident Playbook is a project created by the IR community to facilitate the creation of IR playbooks. You can view more details at this link: https://github.com/austinsonger/Incident-Playbook.

One interesting feature is that the playbooks seek to be aligned...