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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
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Section 2: Getting to Know the Adversaries
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Section 3: Designing and Implementing Incident Response in Organizations
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Section 4: Improving Threat Detection in Incident Response

Chapter 13: Creating and Deploying Detection Rules

In many security incidents, response times were long because threats were not detected early enough and adequately due to multiple factors. These include the improvement of the threat actor's ability to evade detection or the lack of detection of the monitoring tools because they did not have the configuration or information about that specific threat.

That is why it is so important to have a proactive approach in incident response, where it is assumed that, at some point, there will be security compromises that could not be detected by the Security Operation Center (SOC).

One way to do this is through rules to hunt threats in a more specific way to have a clear idea about what and where you need to look for specific information, rather than very generically, as this would be the equivalent of looking for a needle in a haystack.

In this chapter, you will learn about the following:

  • Introduction to detection rules...