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Incident Response with Threat Intelligence

By : Roberto Martinez
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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

First response toolkit

As I mentioned before, tools are a vital part of first response procedures. Their proper use will help obtain the evidence required for the investigation without compromising information or systems' integrity.

It is essential to know the technical details of the tools you will use, how they work, and how they interact with the target systems; this will prevent contamination, leading to invalidating it in a legal case or making it unusable when analyzing it.

The goal of these tools is to obtain a forensic image of the device to be investigated. The first responder must integrate these tools into their toolkit to always be prepared.

Fortunately, there are not just commercial tools for first responders; there are also many free and open source reliable options. We will mention and use a few of them in the practical labs for this book's purposes.

There are two categories of tools that are used: those to obtain forensic images and then analyze...