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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

Chapter 4: Applying First Response Procedures

In this chapter, we will have the opportunity to apply the concepts learned in the previous chapters in a very practical way, using scenarios of cases related to cybersecurity incidents. As mentioned in the previous chapters, one of the main objectives of first-response procedures is to get useful information to investigate a cybersecurity incident.

So, there are several things that we must ask ourselves based on the information we have on the case:

  • What are the possible sources of data?
  • What kind of technology is behind the device from which I should get the information?
  • How volatile is the data?
  • Can I take the device into custody if necessary, or is that device required for business continuity?

These questions will help you make the best decision about what could be the most appropriate methodologies, procedures, and tools to perform first-response procedures in a particular case.

In this chapter...