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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

Configuring the detection lab

Before we start the practical exercises in this chapter, we need to prepare our work environment.

To begin, start up the virtual machines that we will use throughout this chapter. To do this, start VMware Workstation Player. From there, do the following:

  • Start the IR-Laptop virtual machine and sign in using the following credentials:
    • Username: investigator
    • Password: L34rn1ng!
  • Start the IR-Workstation virtual machine and sign in using the following credentials:
    • Username: investigator
    • Password: L34rn1ng!

Once you have started both virtual machines, you can install and configure the tools that will be required to perform the practical lab exercises.

Implementing a threat hunting platform

In the previous chapter, you learned about some basic concepts for using the monitoring, detection, incident response, and orchestration Security Onion platform. As you learned, this platform contains valuable tools for active defense against threats...